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  • Group Forms to Drive NVDIMM Adoption | EE Times

    As NAND flash is supplemented over the next few years by new technologies with improved durability and the same performance as system memory, “we’ll be able to start thinking about building systems where memory and storage are combined into one entity,” he said. “This is the megachange to computer architecture that SNIA is looking at…

  • AnandTech | The Pixel Density Race and its Technical Merits

    If there is any single number that people point to for resolution, it is the 1 arcminute value that Apple uses to indicate a “Retina Display”. via AnandTech | The Pixel Density Race and its Technical Merits. Earlier in my job where I work, I had to try and recommend the resolution people needed to…

  • Jon Udell on filter failure

    It’s time to engineer some filter failure Jon’s article points out his experience of the erosion of serendipity or at least opposing view points that social media enforces (somewhat) accidentally. I couldn’t agree more. One of the big promises of the Internet was that it was unimaginably vast and continuing to grow. The other big promise was that it…

  • My First Original Arduino Project: What I Learned About Learning

    Very nice write-up on a first time Arduino project. With a good demo video at the very end. Highly recommended.

  • nVidia Gsync video scalar on the horizon

    http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1320783 nVidia is making a new bit of electronics hardware to be added to LCD displays made by third party manufacturers. The idea is to send syncing data to the display to let it know when a frame is rendered by the 3D video hardware on the video card. Having this bit of extra electronics…

  • There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming, and the data is starting to emerge

    Originally posted on Gigaom: If you’ve been having trouble with your Netflix streams lately, or maybe like David Rafael, director of engineering for a network security company in Texas, you’re struggling with what appears to be throttled bandwidth on Amazon Web Services, you’re not alone. It’s an issue I’ve been reporting on for weeks to…

  • Follow-Up – EETimes on SanDisk UltraDIMMs

    http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320775 “The eXFlash DIMM is an option for IBM‘s System x3850 and x3950 X6 servers providing up to 12.8 TB of flash capacity. (Although just as this story was being written, IBM announced it was selling its x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion).” Sadly it seems the party is over before it even…

  • M00Cs! and the Academy where the hype meets the roadway

    http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/01/27/inside-the-first-year-data-from-mitx-and-harvardx.aspx – Campus Technology “While 50 percent of MOOC registrants dropped off within a week or two of enrolling, attrition rates decreased substantially after that window.” So with a 50% attrition rate everyone has to keep in mind those overwhelmingly large enrollment are not representative of the typical definition of the word “student”. They are shopping.…

  • IBM Goes Modular And Flashy With X6 Systems – Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The memory channel storage modules were developed by SanDisk in conjunction with Diablo Technologies, and are called UltraDIMM by SanDisk. The modules put flash memory created by SanDisk (which has a flash partnership with Toshiba) that has a SATA interface on a memory stick. Diablo has created a chipset that converts the SATA protocol to…

  • Leaked Intel roadmap’ promises… er, gear that could die after 7 months [Chris Mellor for theregister.com]

      Chris Mellor – The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/09/intel_ssd_roadmappery/   Chris does a quick write-up of a leaked SSD roadmap from Intel. Seems like we’re now in a performance plateau on the consumer/business end of the scale for SATA based SSD drives. I haven’t seen an uptick in Read/Write performance in a long time. Back in the…