Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Revival?: 18 inch radius wafers in year 2015
Says who?
Eighteen-inch wafers will replace 12-inch as the mainstream in 2015, according to Joo-Tai Moon, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics.
Eighteen-inch wafers will replace 12-inch as the mainstream in 2015, according to Joo-Tai Moon, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics.
Flight 447: Killer microprocessor !
A case started in a California district court on behalf of some of the relatives who died when an Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 2009.
"The microprocessors and other component parts designed and manufactured by Intel were defective when they left the custody and control of Intel, and a proximate cause of the crash," the filing says.
Microprocessors and other components "failed to adequately filter out inaccurate data and provided erroneous information; the microprocessors used in the flight control computers, ADIRUs and other components prevented the installed software from functioning properly and created inaccurate data" and so failed "properly detect and warn of the accumulation of ice on the aircraft".
"The microprocessors and other component parts designed and manufactured by Intel were defective when they left the custody and control of Intel, and a proximate cause of the crash," the filing says.
Microprocessors and other components "failed to adequately filter out inaccurate data and provided erroneous information; the microprocessors used in the flight control computers, ADIRUs and other components prevented the installed software from functioning properly and created inaccurate data" and so failed "properly detect and warn of the accumulation of ice on the aircraft".
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Six reasons why graphene will prevail CMOS in the end
Here's six reasons why Meindl thinks graphene will drive the industry in the post-CMOS era:
1. Graphene has ''a mechanical strength-to-weight ratio exceeding that of any known material.''
2. ''Carrier mobility exceeds 200,000-cm2/Vs.''
3. ''Carriers with zero effective mass that propagate as 'Dirac fermions' in a manner similar to photons with a velocity 300 times less than the speed of light without scattering for distances in the micrometer range.''
4. ''The capacity to conduct current densities as large as one thousand times greater than copper without electromigration.''
5. ''Record values of more than 5,000W/mK for room temperature thermal conductivity.''
6. ''The capability to serve as a source, channel drain regions of a field effect transistor (FET) and as an interconnect.''
AMD Graphics Processors to Accelerate Servers in Two Years.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Mysterious Google reroute
Google and others have said they will need Terabit Ethernet products as early as 2013.
Google is not alone: NSA contributed to XP, Vista, Win7
Microsoft said that it has sought help from the NSA over the last four years. In 2007, NSA officials acknowledged working with Microsoft during the development of Windows Vista to help boost its defenses against computer viruses, worms and other attacks. Apparently its skills can be seen in the Windows XP consumer version and the Windows Server 2003 for corporate customers,as well as in Vista.
As far as in the year 2007.
We are so eager for the latest NSA software push contributions in Win 7.
As far as in the year 2007.
We are so eager for the latest NSA software push contributions in Win 7.
Declassified: Israel's attack on US NSA ship
One of the most controversial events in the history of U.S.-Israeli relations was the attack by Israeli aircraft, during the midst of the Six-Day War of June 1967, on the USS Liberty, a ship assigned to gather signals intelligence on behalf of the National Security Agency. The attack left thirty-four Americans dead and 171 wounded.
Christmas breakthrough: Chinese hackers broke into NSA, service chiefs' comps
US NSA is as you know, famous Google security adviser.
More than 200 computers belonging to top-ranking government officials, including the three service chiefs and former India national security advisor (NSA) MK Narayanan, were compromised in the hacking operation that originated in China on December 15, it has emerged. Narayanan has been heavily criticized in leading up to the Mumbai terrorists attacks !
Sources disclose that the computer of at least one service chief was totally compromised as he opened the malicious mail sent with a PDF document carrying a hidden ‘trojan’ spyware.
LATEST: China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday.
BAD HARDWARE: The only consolation is that they were not the terrorists. Though, hm, even those could buy in the black market what they can't brake themself, isn't it?
This time, Chinese hackers used botnet servers based in Russia to launch the attack on computers of government officials. Copy?
More than 200 computers belonging to top-ranking government officials, including the three service chiefs and former India national security advisor (NSA) MK Narayanan, were compromised in the hacking operation that originated in China on December 15, it has emerged. Narayanan has been heavily criticized in leading up to the Mumbai terrorists attacks !
Sources disclose that the computer of at least one service chief was totally compromised as he opened the malicious mail sent with a PDF document carrying a hidden ‘trojan’ spyware.
LATEST: China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday.
BAD HARDWARE: The only consolation is that they were not the terrorists. Though, hm, even those could buy in the black market what they can't brake themself, isn't it?
This time, Chinese hackers used botnet servers based in Russia to launch the attack on computers of government officials. Copy?
IBM: 100GHz Graphene transistor
Here.
IBM will next aim to increase the speed of its graphene transistor up to 1 THz, which is the goal for the CERA program.
Graphen on Si wafers link is here.
IBM will next aim to increase the speed of its graphene transistor up to 1 THz, which is the goal for the CERA program.
Graphen on Si wafers link is here.
Power 7: IBM readies 10 PFlops supercomputer
IBM: Envisioning the world's fastest supercomputer
IBM launches Power7 chip, systems
IBM launches Power7 chip, systems
"We took some of that genetic material from the Cell program--ways to do floating point (calculations)--and embedded that right into the Power7 core," McCredie said in an interview with CNET.
But that's not the only thing that makes the Power7 chip special. It integrates eight processing cores in one chip package and each core can execute four tasks--called "threads"--turning an individual chip into a virtual 32-core processor. As a yardstick, Intel's high-end Xeon processors typically have two threads per processing core.
BAD HARDWARE: Lets calculate its power consumption. At 1Gflops/W fastest supercomputer will consume 10 MW for processors only. Congrats.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
The NSA - Google tie
The NSA would also be able to help Google understand what methods are being used to penetrate its system, the sources said. Google, for its part, may share information on the types of malicious code seen in the attacks -- without disclosing proprietary data about what was taken, which would concern shareholders, sources said.
BAD HARDWARE: Seems like Big Brother is sometimes benevolent.
BAD HARDWARE: Seems like Big Brother is sometimes benevolent.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 Newspad finally arrives, nine years late
When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-sized rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.
"If the analogy with the iPod and iPhone holds up, history suggests, then, that a hockey stick in iPad sales is unlikely to occur before fiscal 2012, which is beyond our forecast period."BAD HARDWARE: Some 50 years later, but better ever than never.
British computer pioneers and their links
BBC News is running a series of articles about pioneering British computers and computer pioneers.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
American carriers have publically stated they want 100G Ethernet systems today
American carriers have publically stated they want 100G systems today, but my expectation is they will be deployed in about two or three years
The groups are already looking to define their needs beyond 100G, Foisel said.
BAD HARWDARE: In 5 years, backplanes will thus commercially run at 50 Gpbs.
The groups are already looking to define their needs beyond 100G, Foisel said.
BAD HARWDARE: In 5 years, backplanes will thus commercially run at 50 Gpbs.
Big Brother is your biggest friend !
Anonyomus social networking? No.
There are very few people on any social network who belong to exactly the same groups. A 'group fingerprint' could thus allow websites to identify previously anonymous visitors.
According to Holz, other large social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook could also be used for this type of test, although the shear size of these networks and the resulting data volumes would present a problem.
1B screened people in 2018 !
There are very few people on any social network who belong to exactly the same groups. A 'group fingerprint' could thus allow websites to identify previously anonymous visitors.
According to Holz, other large social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook could also be used for this type of test, although the shear size of these networks and the resulting data volumes would present a problem.
1B screened people in 2018 !
Xing Social Network Users Country Rank
Germany 17
Austria 23
Switzerland
Turkey263
Spain 403
Italy 1,317
United Kingdom 1,634
India 2,123
China 2,357
United States 5,517
Monday, February 01, 2010
Graphen on Si !
Graphen is 100 times better conductor than Si, but Si is cheap. Together they enables cheap, low dissipation chips of the future. Breakthrough?
NASA's latest proposal for the cheap short term Moon landing
No helmets due to NASA budget restrictions. However, spared money can be used for one astronaut more on the Moon surface.
:)
Jobs: Google's "Don't be evil" mantra is "bullshit".
German officials say the country's taxpayers have about €175 billion hidden in Swiss bank accounts
Switzerland faced a renewed assault on its private banking system as Germany considered paying for secret Swiss account data detailing alleged tax evasion by about 1,500 German taxpayers.
HP EDS key whitness obtained unbelievable online Concordia College degree
But while questioning Galloway in court, Mark Howard QC managed to obtain exactly the same degree as Galloway from Concordia College for his dog 'Lulu' with one key difference – the dog got a higher mark."
