Hewlett Packard Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for

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and its businesses. It was formed in November, 2015 when HP Labs spun off Hewlett Packard Labs to reflect the spin off of Hewlett Packard Enterprise from

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(formerly

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). The lab is located in

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History

HP Labs was established on March 3, 1966, by founders

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and

David Packard David Packard ( ; September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–6 ...

, seeking to create an organization not bound by day-to-day business concerns. In August 2007, HP executives drastically diminished the number of projects, down from 150 to 30. On November 1, 2015, HP Labs spun off Hewlett Packard Labs into a separate organization managed by

with Martin Fink becoming the director. In 2014, CTO Martin Fink Labs announced a computer architecture research project called The Machine. The project focused on a "memory-centric" computer based on a pool of

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memory connected to special purpose cores using a photonics interconnect. An early prototype was produced in 2016 consisting of 320TB of

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memory, dozens of off the shelf processors and a

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based interconnect. Since then, HPE has been working on bringing various aspects to their product lines.

Directors

The following have served as Director of Hewlett Packard Labs since its foundation in 1966 as HP Labs.{{Cite web, url=https://www.labs.hpe.com/former-directors, title=Former Directors *

Barney Oliver Bernard M. Oliver (May 17, 1916 – November 23, 1995), also known as Barney Oliver, was a scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and computers. He was the founder and director of Hewlett Packard ( HP) ...

(1966–81) *John Doyle (1981–84) *Joel Birnbaum (1984–86 and 1991–99) *Don Hammond (1986–87) *Frank Carrubba (1987–91) *Ed Karrer (1999) *Dick Lampman (1999–2007) * Prith Banerjee (2007–2012) *Chandrakant Patel (interim; April 7, 2012 – Nov 2012) *Martin Fink (2012–2016) *Mark Potter (2016–2020) *Andrew Wheeler (2020-Present)

References

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