Wednesday, September 26, 2012

New DDR4 spec sets stage for new DRAM in computers

New DDR4 spec sets stage for new DRAM in computers
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Tablets win notebooks: Global tablet shipment, penetration forecast


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Bill signed regulating self-driving cars in California

Bill signed regulating self-driving cars in California

Self-driving cars a reality for 'ordinary people' within 5 years, says Google's Sergey Brin
Google's cars have done about 300,000 miles of road testing, but not without incident, Brin said. The most the cars have achieved without "safety-critical intervention" -- or a driver needing to take control -- is about 50,000 miles, he said.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Microsoft literally overestimated power need of Bingo search !

Microsoft and Yahoo both surprisingly overestimated their power use.  When they were order to each pay tens of thousands in fines Yahoo paid its $94,608 USD penalty without question.  But Microsoft stood its ground, refusing to pay the $210,000 USD fine requested by the utility.
According to current and former company employees, Microsoft's Quincy servers ran Bing — its challenge to Google’s search engine — the Hotmail service and other so-called cloud functions.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Well, it was indicative year 2007 when mistake was made !

Google shares up, Facebook's (again) down !

Things aren't looking so good for Facebook however. The social network's shares slumped 8.4 percent overnight, following rumours that users' private messages were appearing on their public walls, rumours that Facebook has since denied.
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Ultra-large capacity transmission of 1 petabit per second over a 52.4 km length of 12-core optical fiber demonstrated


Ultra-large capacity transmission of 1 petabit (1000 terabit) per second over a 52.4 km length of 12-core (light paths) optical fiber demonstrated
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Friday, September 21, 2012

Humans never returned Mars soil sample, however know that some rocks on Earth are from Mars ???

But, there are some rocks from Moon at Earth  too ! Copy? Apollo landing possible never happened!
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Ultimate Silicon Valley Perk: Custom Chips From Intel and AMD

Ultimate Silicon Valley Perk: Custom Chips From Intel and AMD
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Data Tsunami

As the proliferation of connected devices and the resultant explosion in data volume continue, Hannah Breeze investigates whether or not IT infrastructure will be able to cope
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Japanese banks attacked

According to a translation of the NPA's alert (PDF) that we have seen, as many as 300 Japanese websites could be targeted in the attacks, and around 4,000 people are thought to be involved.
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NTV for Graphics !


Based on our analysis of these papers, Near-Threshold Voltage computing techniques are most applicable to highly parallel workloads. Generally, NTV is an ideal fit for HPC workloads and works very well for graphics, but not general purpose CPUs.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Survey claims over half of Americans 'disappointed' by iPhone 5

Survey claims over half of Americans 'disappointed' by iPhone 5 
It brings “nothing new” to consumers
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Even Microsoft is not so conservative in touch with customers.

Pre Obama: Cyber weapon has been activated 5 years ago !

Cyber weapon is active ! 

The findings are likely to bolster a growing view that the US government is using cyber technology more widely than previously believed to further its interests in the Middle East. 
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RIP Moore: Intel's Haswell will be a larger chip with more transistors

FIN was single use solution?
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: New chips will never be again smaller with bigger perfomance !

Monday, September 17, 2012

Oppo Unveils World's First 1080p Smartphone

Oppo Unveils World's First 1080p Smartphone
The device is going to ship with Android 4.1 on a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 processor. To get an idea of how powerful this chip is, the APQ8064 easily beats the Exynos 4412-based Galaxy S III and Tegra 3-based Nexus 7 on a number of benchmarks. Other rumored specs include 2GB of RAM, a 12-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front facing camera, 16GB or 32GB of storage and a 2,500mAh battery pack.
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End of scaling at Intel in 2020 !

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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Why? Well, at 4nm node it is simply end of Moore's scaling scales ! The other manufacturers would stop a few years later. If atomic deposit layer electronics is in. However, at atomic layer thickness electronics will become single electronics ! That is good ! Well, not quite in speed terms. So, kind of abrupt split in electronics. The new one should be called Atomic Layer Single Electronics.

Intel Demos 7Gpbs Wireless Docking and wireless future

Intel Demos 7Gpbs Wireless Docking
Intel has looked into its crystal ball and seen the future of computing: a world where every device that can compute will connect to the internet without any wires altogether.
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PC DRAM below 50% of world conusmption.

Well, DRAM was PC driving engine all the time. Up to now.
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Intel's Shark Bay ultrabook will support WD 5mm hybrid HD

WIth HAswell ULT processor
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750 MB hybrid HD ultrabook with reduced processor power consumption and carbon body finally seems light, cheap and fast . Recommended.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Intel: 10nm geometry is still economical

Well, if combined with 450mm wafers.
But,
As for Intel's research into 450mm wafers, Bohr said that the larger wafers are somewhere between four and five years away, once again making the technology unlikely to hit in time for Intel's 10nm process node.
TMSC invest $10B in 450mm
With spending on 450mm R&D alone estimated to range between $8 and $40 billion, capital expenses for the first generation of high-volume manufacturing will probably exceed $25 billion as soon as 2016-2017, SEMI reported.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: What will happen after, with 7nm node? Nobody knows. No 450mm by then, no economical 7nm production. 7nm seems to be the last unified manufacturing road. Then the split will follow.

Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake

Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake
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Intel's Ivy Bridge platform to get 4K display support !


Pretty sad that Intel only now recognized its gaming potential.
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Petaflops Stampede

Ordinary Xeon vs Pi performance ratio 2/8 Petaflops
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

How Iphone 5 is made: All you need to do is OBEY

Here are Iphone 5 workers in China in their dormitories. Much worse accomodation than mass murder Breivik has in Norway. 


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Haswell architecture


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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Far East Empire returns Apple an Iphone 5 ban !

KOREAN PHONE GIANT Samsung is reportedly planning to sue Apple for infringing its 4G LTE patents in the Iphone 5, which could see the smartphone banned in several countries.
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Plan X for a cyber war dominance !

DARPA is to create revolutionary technologies for understanding, planning, and managing cyberwarfare in real-time, large-scale, and dynamic network environments” and “conduct novel research into the nature of cyberwarfare and support development of fundamental strategies and tactics needed to dominate the cyber battlespace.” In other words, Plan X will give Pentagon cybergeeks top-notch tools and research capabilities for the high-tech worms, malware, monitoring equipment, and network infrastructure hijinx that are an integral part of military capability circa 2012.
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WD® Creates World's Thinnest 2.5-inch Hybrid Hard Drive - 5mm

WDCreates World's Thinnest 2.5-inch Hybrid Hard Drive
WD’s innovative hybrid technology pairs MLC NAND flash storage for fast SSD-like data throughput and instant-on responsiveness with magnetic disks for efficient, high-capacity storage. Similar to the practice of multi-million dollar enterprise systems, WD’s hybrid technology utilizes the concept of tiered storage. Data accessed most frequently (often referred to as ‘hot’ data) is managed using speedy NAND flash to ensure fast response times, while data accessed less often (‘cold’ data) resides on the robust magnetic disks. 
WD 5 mm hybrid hard drives will enable the market’s thinnest computers to offer 500 GB of capacity, utilizing almost 50% less volume compared to current 9.5 mm hard drives and at one tenth the cost of similar capacity SSDs. 
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HP cuts close to 30 000 jobs !

HP cuts close to 30 000 jobs !
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Embedded Open Modular Architecture/EOMA-68

This approach can only be achieved thanks to the maturing of the emergent and exciting ARM Embedded CPU market, which has more tightly integrated and much lower power CPUs than any x86 product.
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Intel :$ 1B missed in 3Q action !

$ 1B missed in 3Q aaction !
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Septembar 11 or 12!: Sony RX1 24 Mpixel camera with Full framesensor


Sony RX1 camera leaks with Full frame sensor in compact body
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Friday, September 07, 2012

Dirty HArry's worst nightmare

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Who leaves Comedy Central to work for the government?


Curiosity rover tracks are clearly visible on MArs, but Moon vehicle's not

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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: APollo Moon landing ? Hahhhahahhah. Moon Rover was about the same size as Curiosity !

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Google is rewiring !

Meet the Man Who’s Rewiring Google From the Inside Out
“The cloud is young: much to do, many left to reach.”
When you spread data across hundreds of machines, the theorem explains, you can guarantee that the data is consistent, meaning every machine using the system has access to the same set of data at the same time. You can guarantee that the system is always available, meaning that each time a machine requests a piece of information, it receives a definitive response. And you can guarantee partition tolerance, meaning the system can continue to operate when part of the system fails. But you can’t guarantee all three. You can guarantee two of the three, but not all. “If you’re working with a large-scale distributed system,” explains Seth Gilbert, now an assistant professor in the department of computer science at the National University of Singapore, “you can’t get everything you want.” 
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Why email refuses to die

Why email refuses to die
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SSD officially wears !

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Mass Production of 450mm Wafers Bumped Back Again: 2018

Production of 450mm Wafers Bumped Back Again: 2018
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A $100 billion space station saved by a simple $3 toothbrush?

They were trying to replace an electrical switching unit, but on Thursday they couldn't bolt it to the outside of the station.
What to do if there is no hardware store in the neighborhood and the next supply ship is months away? Build it yourself -- so they attached a simple toothbrush to a metal pole and voila! They were able to clean out the bolt's socket today and finish the job. Shades of Apollo 13 -- when engineers threw parts on a table and brainstormed a solution, which saved the crew.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Yes, Wintel (x86) dominance is waning

 !

The dominance of the Intel-Microsoft cartel is slowly waning, with the two industry heavyweights forced to play catch-up with rivals in a brave new mobile era.


"Microsoft's share of the operating system market for the three products combined is expected to slip to 33 percent in 2016, down from 44 percent in 2011," Stice confirmed.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: That is down 25 % in 5 years ! The same trend will left Wintel only 25% market in year 2021

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

ARM in Digital cameras !

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Monday, September 03, 2012

Integrated silicon optical transmitter to carry large volumes of data between CPUs

Integrated silicon optical transmitter to carry large volumes of data between CPUs.
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