[1] HP Labs was established on March 3, 1966, by founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard, seeking to create an organization not bound by day-to-day business concerns.

[2] In August 2007, HP executives drastically diminished the number of projects, down from 150 to 30.

[3] In 2014, CTO Martin Fink Labs announced a computer architecture research project called The Machine.

[4] The project focused on a "memory-centric" computer based on a pool of non-volatile memristor memory connected to special purpose cores using a photonics interconnect.

An early prototype was produced in 2016 consisting of 320TB of NUMA DRAM memory, dozens of off the shelf processors and a Gen-Z based interconnect.