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DailyTech - HP to Deploy Memristor Powered SSD Replacement Within 18 Months

He comments, "We're planning to put a replacement chip on the market to go up against flash within a year and a half and we also intend to have an SSD replacement available in a year and a half. In 2014 possibly, or certainly by 2015, we will have a competitor for DRAM and then we'll replace SRAM. Flash is a done deal, now we're going after DRAM, and we think we can do two orders of magnitude improvement in terms of switching energy per bit."

This is very exciting. They have previously showed early prototypes running 1/10 the speed of DRAM. They obviously must be about DRAM speed now since they announced they are going to have a DRAM repacement in a couple years.

This could kill off flash memory very quickly. Flash has physics working against it - making the components smaller makes them wear out faster.

HP has shown 100 gigabits/cm2. But, they can stack layers to have 1 petabit per cubic centimenter!

Imagine a thumb drive with 125 Terrabytes of data with access faster than DRAM.

Imagine how disruptive this will be the tablet/smartphone/etc market. They can put a terrabyte on the CPU, no external bus, no DRAM or flash needed any more...

The plan is to license this technology to anyone who wants it, and we'll teach them how to make it. But you'll have to stand in line, we have a bunch of people queued for it. We're doing this because, frankly, we didn't see a hell of a lot of innovation happening out there."

Now if they could make them clear glass, they could live up to STTNG's isoliner memory modules they are always playing with...
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John Kotches
Mike,

In all honesty, it doesn't have to perform on par with DRAM. If it's an order of magnitude or two faster than SSD it's fast enough.

At the microsecond level it will be imperceptibly fast for users. It will have to be 5 orders of magnitude faster than SSD to hit DRAM speeds.



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John Kotches
Duplicate, sorry.



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mike123abc
Mike,

In all honesty, it doesn't have to perform on par with DRAM. If it's an order of magnitude or two faster than SSD it's fast enough.

At the microsecond level it will be imperceptibly fast for users. It will have to be 5 orders of magnitude faster than SSD to hit DRAM speeds.



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That is true, but HP is talking about not only replacing DRAM but also SRAM. So, they are looking at speeds (at least in the lab HP has it working faster than 1ns) faster than DRAM/SRAM. They initially will use it as a replacement for SSDs, but eventually want to be able to layer it directly on the CPU and have a single package have all the storage needed. This would really help the smartphone/tablet industry. A smartphone could practically be one chip and the rest battery.

It really would change the dynamic and the way of thinking about programming. Essentially one would write programs that all work in memory without file storage since memory is now the file storage. The concept of saving work to a file could change for many types of applications. The concept of having to work around the fact that storage is slow has dictated computer programming since punchcards. Essentially an entire new O/S would be needed to optimize the new environment. Running a program is essentially now just like a subroutine call, everything in memory. You have not run a program in years? No problem it still is sitting in memory... all its "files" (at least by the old concept) are open and loaded in memory, just like you left it...

I hope this technology does live up to HP's hype. If they get this on the CPU and replace DRAM (and possibly even CPU L2/L3 caches) and drive storage the entire software industry could change.
John Kotches
Mike:

Unfortunately at this point it's promising but hype.

There will still be a file system, it will be quite fast though. I can see this leading to newer file systems though. And please s don't encourage even more inefficient coding from programmers.

I would not want storage on the chip unless there was an effective method of mirroring it. Lose the chip, lose the storage.



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navychop
Somehow, Microsoft would still manage to keep Windows taking minutes to boot up. :(
Ramy
This is very interesting. Having memory available on the die would be great.
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osu1991
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Another Tulsa King spin off.🙄
dishstaller
Another Tulsa King spin off.🙄
But.....if you like Tulsa King....looks like you would probably like this as well. I don't mind spin-offs as long as they don't involve a sassy niece who moves from the big city :rolleyes:
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I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Juan
Not alot of dish customers any more
Foxbat
I'm not a big fan of the new layout, especially on my Apple TV. It used to look like the old Guide layout on the Hopper 3, but they changed parts of that, too.
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dishstaller
I really dislike change for the sake of change
TheRatPatrol
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Jimbo

Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
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Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
Tony as the director.🙄
Jimbo
Tony as the director.🙄
Would you rather have LaRoche ???
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dfergie
I liked this episode and a toned down Tony...
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Would you rather have LaRoche ???
No. Bring in someone new.🤔 Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
Jimbo
No. Bring in someone new.🤔 Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...

Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)

Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.

Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.

It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
dishstaller
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Might be worth a watch when it comes out. Looks like typical big corp against the little guy movie BUT....there is a reason this plot type is so oft repeated, it draws audiences.


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dishstaller
BTW, I noticed right after I posted this that someone else had already mentioned it....sorry for the duplicate thread. Still looking forward to seeing the movie.
meStevo
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If you're going try to read / listen to the book (can't recommend the audio book enough) before this comes out, I'd avoid trailers.

Trailer below, spoiling it to make sure you read the above bold message first. The book / audio book are fantastic. Go into this blind if you can IMO!




Kind of disappointed at how much they show. A lot still to see, but man, some good reveals in the book that are just served up here.
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I've seen it twice. Can't recommend the audio book enough, Ray Porter's performance is amazing and there's so much more in the book than the movie.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
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Forgot to comment. I did watch when it first came out on MGM. I enjoyed it a lot. I think reading the book made it easier to watch. Several friends commented it was a little hard to follow.
TRG
TRG
"astrophage". I read the book but didn't see the film yet.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
That's what I will be watching this weekend.🤗
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Kindle book on sale for $2.99 today at Amazon.
dishstaller
.........there's so much more in the book than the movie.
I agree. That can go for pretty much any book vs movie. Back when I was single I would read any Stephen King or John Grisham book I could get my hands on. When you read a book you make up the scenes and characters in your mind.....the movie version always disappoints.
meStevo
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Selfish Drake Maye holds back on giving the ball to Bills unlike Jags game, gets the win on the road.
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Selfish Drake Maye holds back on giving the ball to Bills unlike Jags game, gets the win on the road.
A big win for the Patriots, and they are now 3-2.

Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place. :eek:
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
After having experienced Gus Ferguson trying to call soccer games, I'm uncertain why NFL football analysts get hate. Even the "worst" of them are pretty good.
meStevo
Jalen Hurts out indefinitely as they treat and monitor a superficial blood clot in his leg.


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dishstaller
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I had quit watching this show years ago because I ended up more annoyed than entertained. Well......I'm STILL more annoyed than entertained. I DO find it interesting to see how things work behind the scenes at many businesses. What annoys me is how utterly out of touch CEOs are with the companies they run. At the end of almost every episode the head of the company is amazed at how hard the employees have to work and many times have to work around impossible guidelines set forth from headquarters.

I found this one interesting because the new CEO had big plans for this company, Muscle Maker Grill, and it looked like the stores were all pretty busy. Recent history hasn't been good to this company however. I bet the covid lockdowns were the real killer.


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