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iPad release imminent – caveat emptor
iPad is all anyone will be talking about for a while. And since I’ve tried to write about its innovations or lack of ‘true’ innovations (jacking up clockspeed is not an innovation) now comes time where real people get to weigh in. But that’s not me, I haven’t used an iPad. So I’ll try to…
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Which way the wind blows: Flash Memory in the Data Center
There are some new markets in Flash solid state disks opening up at the Enterprise storage level. But who and what can we expect? STEC was the darling last year. Fusion-io the darling this year. Next year? LSI? Micron?
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links for 2010-03-17
Notes from NoSQL Live Boston 2010 – marcua's blog Great detailed list of the conference proceedings, with some commentary thrown in. Very good, broad overview of the state of the art in NoSQL implementations and projects (tags: nosql blog architecture cassandra)
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Apple A4 processor really stripped-down Cortex A8? | Electronista
Following further articles published on the Apple iPad cpu, new reports are surfacing the custom CPU Apple created called the A4 may be an ARM Cortex A8 single core cpu with integrated graphics GPU and controller logic.
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AppleInsider | Custom Apple A4 iPad chip estimated to be $1 billion investment
What’s the point of licensing computer chip designs from another company if it costs about the 1/3 the price of building it yourself? That seems like a rhetorical question, but I always assumed that people who licensed technology from ARM holdings were aiming to save tons of money compared to fabricating the chips themselves. So…
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Next Flash Version Will Support Private Browsing
Adobe Flash as a web browser plug-in may see it’s dominance wane. Time to ditch the plug-in and make a Multimedia Web Browser once and for all time.
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links for 2010-02-04
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/02/canon.intros.mpeg.2.full.hd.codec.ahead.of.camera/ Canon is mucking up the works by creating yet another digital video format for people to adopt. AVHDC, HDV and now this lone MPEG-2 based format. It's getting real confusing to keep up with these attempts to corner the market (tags: video canon digital)
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Apple A4 SOC unveiled – It’s an ARM CPU and the GPU! – Bright Side Of News*
“iPad is powered by our own custom silicon. We have an incredible group that does custom silicon at Apple,” company co-founder Steve Jobs said during Wednesday’s keynote. “We have a chip called A4, which is our most advanced chip we’ve ever done that powers the iPad. It’s got the processor, the graphics, the I/O, the…
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Some people are finding Google Wave useful
I’m not hating on Google Wave, far from it. But I’m curious how much people are adopting it for the day-to-day communications they are doing at work. What about YOU?
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