So this morning I'm seeing again one of HP's Star TreK commercials about this "The Machine" computer they are hyping as the future. So out of curiosity I started looking into what it is and found this interesting article: http://www.labs.hpe.com/research/themachine/
Among other things it says this:
Sounds like they are taking the idea of eliminating the RAM / HDD model in favor of universal memory (likely 3D Xpoint memory) and running with it. I'm imagining in the beginning this will just be for cloud / enterprise / hosting environments, but maybe the tech will eventually make it into the desktop one day. We might be seeing a sudden shift in computer development if this is their move. As CPUs are starting to hit the limits of where they can push the materials too, it's time to start focusing on the other major bottleneck which now is memory access speed.
Among other things it says this:
Sounds like they are taking the idea of eliminating the RAM / HDD model in favor of universal memory (likely 3D Xpoint memory) and running with it. I'm imagining in the beginning this will just be for cloud / enterprise / hosting environments, but maybe the tech will eventually make it into the desktop one day. We might be seeing a sudden shift in computer development if this is their move. As CPUs are starting to hit the limits of where they can push the materials too, it's time to start focusing on the other major bottleneck which now is memory access speed.