Interesting video about Memristors with Stan Williams of HP Research. Starts out with a standard “the benefit to the consumer video recorder is enormous,” [not literal quote!], but luckily moves into a much more interesting point, which Dr. Williams discusses a little more in depth: the benefit of the technology vis a vis embedded cell [...]
Intels Flash Memory drive, as in, Intels drive into the flash memory market, started out this month with the release of their X25-M and X25-E SSD’s, and they look impressive. The X25-E is primarily designed for enterprise applications with a lower 75ms read latency, while the 25-M, designed for the consumer and laptop market, has [...]
In the field of SSD enterprise-level flash drives, IBM Research has hit a new benchmark. Based on their own SAN Volume Controller SVC, and using SSD developed by Fusion-io, their project Quicksilver surpassed the 1 million IOPS threshold. From their press release,
The results were achieved using Flash solid-state technology coupled with IBM’s industry leading, highly [...]
The spate of recent intel ATOM low-voltage processors has made a variety of products available that bask in the glory of the emerging market “ethic” of energy conservation.
Asus in particular, with their eee pc 901, has coasted for awhile on the branding of their ASUS Eee PC 901 and 900 900 Linux or 900 [...]
