编者按：一位惠普总部的高级研究员告诉参加塞维利亚国际电子论坛的与会者们，惠普将计划在18个月内发表NAND闪存的替代品，称为忆阻器。

                                                                                         计算机世界 -  一个来自惠普总部的高级研究员于本周告诉参加塞维利亚国际电子论坛(International Electronics Forum)的与会者，他的公司准备在18个月内推出新的非易失性内存芯片，以替代NAND闪存和固态硬盘（SSD）。

    ＂我们计划在1年半的时间内在市场上投放一种可替代的芯片（称为忆阻器），用于与闪存竞争。“惠普高级研究员斯坦·威廉姆斯告诉电子周刊的人，“我们还打算在1年半的时间内推出固态硬盘（SSD）的替代品。”

    “闪存已是木已成舟，”威廉姆斯引用成语，“现在我们落后于动态随机存取存储器（DRAM），但我们认为我们可以改善每比特的能量交换两个数量级。”    

    “我们通过feb运行了几百个晶片，”他继续说。“我们远远超过了当时预计在此刻取得的成就。”

      去年，惠普宣布与南韩芯片制造商海力士（Hynix）公司一同生产新一代的非易失性内存产品。

    忆阻器是带有记忆功能电阻器的简称，基本上来说是一个具有记忆的电阻。今年早些时候，惠普宣布忆阻器也可以执行逻辑。

    因此，该芯片可以同时作为处理器和存储器工作。它将来有可能会替代海量存储设备和中央处理器。

惠普的发言人于周五告诉《计算机世界》：“惠普已经设立目标，在2013年底制造出忆阻器产品，”但现在还没有排出具体时间表。

    “斯坦的意见事实上在文章中被误解了，”她说。 

    这位发言人说，惠普与其合作伙伴海力士（Hynix）公司按照计划将在2013年向市场推出一个新产品。这个日期与双方2010年首次在忆阻器技术领域合作时公布的日期相同。

    “2013年内在市场投放新产品一直是我们的目标，或者说1年半内。我们现在不能保证什么，但这是我们的目标，”她说。“研究和制造团队正在朝着这个目标努力。”

    Computerworld - A Hewlett-Packard senior fellow this week told attendees at the International Electronics Forum 2011 in Seville that his company will have a new non-volatile memory chip ready to replace NAND flash and solid state drives (SSD) within 18 months.

    "We're planning to put a replacement chip (called Memristor) on the market to go up against flash within a year and a half," HP senior fellow Stan Williams told ElectronicsWeekly.com. "We also intend to have an SSD replacement available in a year and a half."

    "Flash is a done deal," Williams was quoted as saying, "now we're going after DRAM, and we think we can do two orders of magnitude improvement in terms of switching energy per bit."

    "We're running hundreds of wafers through the fab," he continued. "We're way ahead of where we thought we would be at this moment in time."

    HP last year announced a deal with S. Korean chip maker Hynix to produce a next-generation non-volatile memory product.

    Memristor, short for memory resistor, is basically a resistor with memory. Earlier this year, HP announced that Memristors could also perform logic.

    Therefore the chip can work as both a processor and as storage. It could one day take the place of both mass storage devices and central processing units.

    An HP spokeswoman told Computerworld Friday that "HP has a goal to see Memristor products by the end of 2013," but the scedule isn't set in concrete yet.

    "Stan's comments were actually misinterpreted by what was in the article," she said.

    The spokeswoman said that HP and partner Hynix are on schedule to bring a product to market in 2013, the same date announced in 2010 when the two companies first began work on the Memristor technology.

    "It has always been the goal to have a product to market market by 2013, or in the next 18 months, but we're not promising that right now. We're saying that's our goal," she said. "The research and fabrication teams are working toward that goal."

原文地址：http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220652/HP_set_to_release_NAND_flash_replacement_in_18_months