Hewlett-Packard (HP) is reportedly working on a new type of
powerful computer which it calls “The Machine”. It looks like HP is planning to
give a tough competition to Microsoft Windows in future days. On last Thursday,
that is May 6, 2014, at the company’s annual customer conference, HP CEO Meg
Whitman gave a little more than a glimpse of the company’s plans.
Just moments after Whitman announced HP’s plans to compete
with Microsoft Windows OS, with a new OS that the company is saying will be
free and open source; she thanked Microsoft for being the major sponsor of the
conference and invited the new CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella.
But just before Nadella joined the conference, HP CTO Martin
Fink, Head of HP Labs, unveiled a little of ‘The Machine’. According to HP this
new data center computer can be the future of server hardware, as it could
“replace a data center’s worth of equipments with a single refrigerator-sized
machine”. This machine claims that it can process loads of information in an
instant using very less power, almost negligible.
The details are very few, but what is said is that this new
computer from HP is going to make use of a new memory technology called
memristors. Memristors are one of the options that the company is exploring;
they might represent the biggest change.
But this new machine from HP is not going to be available in
the market any soon, at least for few years. HP began to work on this new
machine about a year and half ago. Meanwhile it is the news that ‘The Machine’
will not use Windows OS. In fact Fink said that ‘The Machine’ will use the new
OS that HP is currently building.
He said, “We want to reignite in all of our universities
around the world operating system research which we think has been dormant or
stagnant for decades.”
“We are, as part of The Machine, announcing our intent to
build a new operating system all open source from the ground up, optimized for
non-volatile memory systems.
We also have a team that's starting from a Linux environment
and stripping out all the bits we don't need. So that way you maintain ...
compatibility for apps.
What if we build a version of Android? ... We have a team
that's doing that, too.”
It is quite a long that HP has been in the market, and it is
good thing that the company is now experimenting new thing and exploring new
regions. Meanwhile, HP computers and printers are well-known products of the
company, used and favored by millions of users around the world. These are the
best-in-industry products from the company. However, users often, get problems
with HP computers and printers. So it is a good thing that one avails the
support for HP provided by good companies like SupportMart. Simply talk to
experts by dialing their HP supportnumber and get resolutions right away.
All in all, if you are waiting for HP’s ‘The Machine’, then
you might have to wait for a while. However, during that time you can keep
using other HP products. And if you get problems then contact good companies
that provide comprehensive HP computer support and HP printer support.
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