• The Sandy Bridge Review: Intel Core i7-2600K – AnandTech

    The newest generation of Intel chips was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Some of the technology fanboi websites got early samples of chips and motherboards that use the new chips and chipsets. Aside from having the memory controller on the CPU, another benefit is the integrated graphics chip can be re-purposed…

  • I’m Posting every week in 2011!

    I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011. I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The…

  • Next-Gen SandForce Controller Seen on OCZ SSD

    More follow up on the brief hints at the SandForce SF-2000 series SSD drive controller. More details are coming out about the expected range of performance of SSDs using the chip. Hopefully it will see some fast uptake by the bigger manufacturers of the PCIe based SSD drives, thus sending computer performance to a whole…

  • CES 2011: Corsair Performance Series 3 SSD Benchmarks – AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

    Future performance rates of PCIe based Flash Memory drives is going through the roof based on the torrid pace of development at SandForce. They make the leading flash memory controller for SSDs and PCIe based SSD drives. And the rate of change in each generation of shipping product is scaling up much faster than anyone…

  • 2010 in review

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog…

  • Micron’s ClearNAND: 25nm + ECC

    Whenever you have a refinement in a technologically sophisticated product there are always side effects. With silicon chips, some side effects were very beneficial (as sizes shrink, speeds can increase). However with Flash memory chips, multi-level memory cells are starting to suffer from the point of diminishing returns. Smaller sizes mean more fragile, more susceptible…

  • 450mm chip wafers | Electronista

    This size of silicon wafers used in the making of computer chips continues to grow. Check out what Intel plans for the next big growth spurt.

  • links for 2010-12-11

    Comic for December 7, 2010 I need to remind myself of this cartoon every time I see the word values appear in mission statements. (tags: values culture cult)

  • links for 2010-12-03

    3 Augmented Reality Tutorials A nice collection of the toolkits out there for you to use on a currently shipping cellphones and computers (tags: augmentation ar augmented_reality)

  • Bob Slydell: What would you say, Ya DO Here?

    When you are at work, what is it specifically that you consider work? Is it answering a request, a question, doing something someone has delegated to you? Or is it something bigger, more creative, something that requires isolation and silence to get done?