# Key Points from IRC Log (October 9, 2011)

• HP announced plans to release memristor-based memory technology in 18 months as a NAND flash replacement, with HP's Stanley Williams claiming it could "buy us twenty years of Moore's Law" by enabling 2GB of non-volatile memory per processor core.

• The memristor technology was described as being significantly ahead of development schedule, with HP "running hundreds of wafers through the fab" and planning to target DRAM next with "two orders of magnitude improvement in terms of switching energy per bit."

• Discussion centered on how memristors would disrupt the storage industry, with one participant noting that a "petabyte harddrive for a few hundred bucks would screw up the entire hard drive industry."

• Participants debated the technical challenges of implementing memristor-based RAM, noting it would require a paradigm shift in how software and hardware handle non-volatile memory and new power-saving operation modes.

• A book on 3D vision with Kinect, Processing, and Arduino ("Making Things See") was shared, indicating interest in computer vision and physical computing among channel participants.

• There was a brief discussion about DNA sequencing companies, with one participant questioning whether they were primarily focused on extending human lifespan, while another characterized them as simply commodity businesses.