Burning Bumps and Flaming Wafers
It’s the S|A weekly roundup
Intel launched a new chipset this week, and just like OCZ, they also launched a new series of SSDs.
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Intel launched a new chipset this week, and just like OCZ, they also launched a new series of SSDs.
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3D transistors? Bulldozer and Llano benchmarks? Upcoming motherboard leaks? And the highest clocked desktop quad core ever released? It must be May.
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Linux, AMD, and Nvidia have been hogging most of the headlines this week. But that’s okay because Intel and ARM managed to work their way in a little bit, and then there’s always next week to look forward to…
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Elpida just announced that their 30nm DRAM process is ramping up, and the release has a bunch of goodies buried in it.
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With the release of the Crucial (NASDAQ:MU) M4 the other day, we are now in to the second generation of SATA6 SSDs.
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China has developed and manufactured its first phase change memory that has a capacity of 8 Mb according to a report by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.
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Intel (INTC) and Micron (MU) now holds the record thanks to 20 nm lithography IMFT (IM Flash Technologies) have just introduced a 64 Gb part based on 20 nm process technology.
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This week was packed with hardware reviews, yet more slide leaks, and an a couple of odd ball product launches. Things will probably start to quiet down in the next couple weeks as everyone gets ready to release their quarterly results. But whatever the case, the unicorns at S|A are acting mighty feisty.
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Tyan (TSE: 2315) has an interesting little not-a-blade-really micro-server called the FM65-B5511. It packs 18 servers into a 4U rack node, and a 1GbE or 10GbE switch module.
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Crucial is dropping a BoM on enterprise server memory customers with their new BoM-controlled RDIMM line. It may not seem like much if you don’t need it, but to those that do, it is worth more than gold.
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Intel (INTC) is desperately trying to stem the tides of defection among server vendors moving to ARM (ARMH), but they are hamstrung by the company’s own market manipulation. The exclusion of competitors not only meant tepid chips that no one wants, it is now excluding the very partners that Intel wants.
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The Open Nand Flash Interface Working Group might not be one of the most prominent specification promoters in the business, but there’s a slow move towards using NAND Flash with ONFI interface in the industry, especially in SSDs.
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OCZ Technologies has just announced that they are buying Indilinx, one of the first makers of SSD and related flash controllers.
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OCZ has the largest SSD I have seen to date, it starts at 4TB, and goes up from there, way up, as far as a 32TB RAID from a single card.
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