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Toshiba rolls out 220GB-Could the iPod Classic see a refresh?
I still think the iPod Classic is a very useful product. A lot of fanbois of the iPhone/Touch persuasion will demand Apple drop the Classic like a hot potato and go without spinning hard drives one and for all time. I say bring on the HDDs. It’s useful technology and still holds more files for…
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IBM Teams Up With ARM for 14-nm Processing
Intel and IBM and TSMC and Samsung have all competed against one another in the area of shrinking the size of the design rules that govern their production lines for processors. Each new successively smaller generation has to be tested, piloted and put into production with big amounts of failed product along the way. And…
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Chip upstart Tilera in the news
What would you do if you had a cloud computing environment sitting in a 2 Unit rack sized box? Well we’ll never know unless YOU TRY IT! Tilera is signing up all kinds of manufacturers to try out test samples of it’s unique cpu in products that range from Quanta’s S2Q to security gateways for…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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