Re HP: So the company decided that memristors were the wave of the future and that it would go all in. At the June press conference, HP announced that it was developing something called simply “The Machine,” a memristor-based computer projected for commercial development by 2020.
It sounds exciting jrbinst but it is electronic. By the time 2020 rolls around you would expect that in the electronics domain a big effort will be to produce the single electron transistor (quantum) using the POET design or other that we have not heard of yet. The need for dynamic optical solutions in computing including memory and data transfer will probably play a leading role in industry by the time HP is ready to bring the memrister to market?
The article certainly supports the need for new innovation as demonstrated by the following statement:
But you cannot keep shrinking the size of a transistor indefinitely. At some point they get too small to properly perform their function. And that point is rapidly approaching. When it’s reached, assuming that we want computers to keep getting evermore powerful, then a new structure will have to be implemented.
