As bad as that sounds, I don't think that HP is currently making much money off flash memory, so they still have an incentive to get the memristors to market soon. They just have chosen to make enough concessions to secure the cooperation of a DRAM manufacturer so that HP doesn't have to build the whole memristor business themselves. (The way HP's been managed in recent years, I wonder if they would be able to get and hold on to enough capital to mass produce memristors and bring them to market without help.)