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  • Toshiba unwraps 24nm flash memory in possible iPhone 5 clue | Electronista

    Everyone wants to know when the next iPhone is coming out. And manufacturers of components that typically go into making an iPhone continue to do research and development on their components to make them more attractive to the high end manufacturers. Apple is very demanding and rewarding when it comes to Flash memory production. They…

  • Bye, Flip. We’ll Miss You | Epicenter | Wired.com

    I’m not just a fan, I’ve owned a few video cameras as new technology has displaced the old. First there was 8mm, then miniDV, and then the solid state revolution as exemplified by Pure Digital’s once disposable video camera. It was a project created for a drug store chain, but hackers showed the company their…

  • links for 2011-04-08

    Data hand tools Great example of using command line utilities in Unix to do some useful examples of data reduction on structured text files. Need to read this later. (tags: xarg,find,sed,awk,grep)

  • Quanta crams 512 cores into pizza box server • The Register

    Quanta versus SeaMicro and Intel versus Tilera, these are the match-ups in the the competition for low power draw and high density in the data center of the future. What kind of exotic tools is it going to take to outfox companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the hegemony of cloud computing?

  • AppleInsider | Expanded GPU support in Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6.7 hints at future Mac hardware

    It may surprise some PC Fanboys but on a tower based Macintosh Pro, you cannot just throw any old graphics card into that machine install drivers and expect it to work, Oh Noes. It is like this, Apple tests hardware in small quantities that works with its hardware, engineers samples that Apple will sell as…

  • Microsoft Research Watch: AI, NoSQL and Microsoft’s Big Data Future

    Microsoft has a Cloud Data platform entitled Azure that competes with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). However beyond just having a product offering out there to let people use their C# development environment for making cloud based applications, there doesn’t seem to be a greater grander goal. Or is there,…

  • OCZ Acquires Indilinx SSD Controller Maker

    Just a few weeks after announcing the OCZ Vertex 3 Pro and non-Pro SSDs, OCZ comes up with this. They are going to acquire a company that competes directly with the top of line SSD drive controller manufacturer. Indilinx has gained a reputation for helping ‘bring down’ prices of SSDs by making the drive controller…

  • Calxeda boasts of 5 watt ARM server node • The Register

    There have been hints, whispers, speculation and allegations that ARM is setting it’s sights on the data center with it’s ARM-15 CPU architecture (still in development). However, on the mobile computing front, Apple has showed what amazing power savings are possible with fully tweaked ARM-8 cpus in it’s A4 processor for the iPad and iPhone…

  • AppleInsider | Insider Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Auto Save, File Versions and Time Machine

    If a desktop computer suddenly became as intuitive and easy to use as a mobile smart phone, what would you think? Would it be an insult? Would it be wonderfully fun and easy for you to adapt? Would you immediately seek out that newer computer and purchase it to get the new features? Start checking…

  • OCZ Vertex 3 Preview – AnandTech

    SandForce has been working on the SF-2000 series drive controllers for the Flash memory disk market for a while. Hints and whispers indicated as did previous generation products, that the newest controller from SandForce would be wildly expensive, but also incredibly fast as well. However, while the OCZ Vertex 3 Pro more or less confirmed…