Welcome to the Friday Tech Roundup! Contained herein is your weekly dose of some of the best tech news from across the Internet, rounded up for your edification and entertainment. Read on for all the details of HP memristor technology, the AI that successfully passed the Turing Testtest is test, and the virtual trading terminal designed for the Oculus Rift.
HP memristors to power world’s first photonic computer within the decade
Computers as we know them are made up of three fundamental components: the resistor, capacitor, and the inductor. In 2008, HP scientists developed a fourth, known as the memristor, which could find its way into production machines within the decade and completely change the way we think about large-scale computing. By 2016, HP plans to have memristor-based DIMMs available to market, which can combine the high storage densities of hard disks with the high performance of traditional DRAM.
