Sunday, March 31, 2013
Intel's SSDs to grow above 1TB
Sixteen and a half years later, INTEL's hard disks—a pair of full height 5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices—are making some disconcerting noises from their bearings, and you're tired of the complaints. It's time to turn off the old warhorse
I believe 1.5TB is currently the largest 2.5" HD available. And even then I'm pretty sure it's a 12.5mm drive designed for external enclosures, not a 9.5mm HDD suitable for use in laptops. 1TB is the largest 2.5" 9.5mm drive I am aware of. (Unless something just recently came out)
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
First light pen interface from 1958
The first to use a “touch screen interface” via the use of light pens on the CRT
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Hollow fibers for exaflops computers
Optical fibres provide unsurpassed transmission bandwidth, but light propagates 31% slower in a silica glass fibre than in vacuum, thus compromising latency
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Icons turn 40
Xerox Alto personal WIMP computer from 1973:
Speed 0.3 MIPS
Memory Type Semiconductor (Si-gate NMOS)
Memory Size 64K - 256K
Memory Width 16-bit
Estimated cost $40,000 (1973 dollars)
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 10 years later XT was priced 10 times lower. With DOS and Basic in 16 colors. Yes, Windows 1.0 extension was announced too (but not released).
300 000 IPS is not bad at all. First defense system SAGE was only at 75 000 IPS
Thursday, March 21, 2013
IBM rethinks the transistor to keep scaling compute power
IBM rethinks the transistor to keep scaling compute power
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The Beast is incapacitated in Jerusalem !, chained, then tugged off
In an incident symbolic of America's decline, President Obama's limo — nicknamed the Beast because of its supposed indestructibility — broke down in Jerusalem earlier today after some very smart person (an American, according to an Israeli news station) mistakenly filled it up with regular gasoline instead of diesel.
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Not because it is easy, but because it is hard: Why Intel can't seem to retire the x86
"That's equal to somewhere between a Core i3 and i5. Even when you don't include new chips, if you look at the rapid progression of latest processors from Qualcomm, Nvidia and Apple, you see how quickly those things are ramping up and these are still 32-bit processors," says McGregor.
The worst part for Intel is that it had an answer to ARM: the StrongARM/XScale ARM processor that it sold off to Marvell in 2006. "If they stuck with StrongARM, they'd be leaps and bounds ahead of where they are now with Atom," says McGregor.
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After tsunami come rats
Reagrading the hardware in general, seems that we got the ultimate failure as RAT, not BUG anymore.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Internet suks to Chinet
Recent progress in the study of the next generation Internet in China
Invented 30 years ago, today the Internet is facing severe challenges. Many countries have funded research projects on the new-generation Internet, such as GENI, FIND, FIRE and CNGI, in an effort to solve these challenges.
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Invented 30 years ago, today the Internet is facing severe challenges. Many countries have funded research projects on the new-generation Internet, such as GENI, FIND, FIRE and CNGI, in an effort to solve these challenges.
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NVIDIA's Volta GPU Launches In 2016, Delivers 1TB/s Of Memory Bandwidth
NVIDIA's Volta GPU Launches In 2016, Delivers 1TB/s Of Memory Bandwidth
Consider that NVIDIA’s Titan GPU — its latest high-end graphics card — can handle only about 288GB/s
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Stacks DDR4 modules on Volta silicon as the GPU.
Consider that NVIDIA’s Titan GPU — its latest high-end graphics card — can handle only about 288GB/s
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Stacks DDR4 modules on Volta silicon as the GPU.
All numbers on F-35
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Intel reinvents Ultrabook then delays it because of USB 3.0 bug
13.5W and 15W TDP classes (SoC): Haswell-ULT (For Intel's UltraBook platform.) in Dual core only.
4 core version means 30W TDP. So, don't expect it this year. Do you remember BADHARDWARE's prediction that Intel's 22nm process is not power optimized ?
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
50 years of CMOS !
Moore's law is great but short lived without CMOS invention.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
XT is now 30 years old and mouse 45 !
However, no tablets official use allowed before XT bachelor night.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 12 racks of hardware in support only the mouse ?. Well, XT seems like a supercomputer in a price / performance ratio. How anyone could imagine man landing on Moon in 1968, even in 1961 ?? What the rocket should be to bring out even the functional mouse on Moon ?
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Why on Moon one astronaut never jumped over the another?
That should be pretty convincing for me.
Yes, astronauts can jump higher on the moon than Earth because there is less gravity on the moon than on Earth. The Moon's low mass causes a force of gravity at the Moon's surface that is only about 1/6 of the force of gravity at the Earth's surface.
A fully-equipped astronaut who weighs 270 pounds on Earth only weighs 45 pounds on the Moon. They must be careful though because their 123 kilogram mass is the same as on Earth, which means it is just as hard to speed up and just as hard to slow down; they must avoid the temptation to think that their reduced weight gives them reduced mass, which it doesn't.
Now, if with full equipment astronaut on Earth could jump one foot high, on Moon would be able to jump 6 feet high, that is its own height. Just enough high for his feet to pass over the head of another astronaut. Then, why ladders on Moon landers? Astronauts could simply jump in and jump out. Or they could save at leastbottom half of the ladders. But, they didn't ! though they throw out even astronauts seats. I don't know how they spent three days on Moon standing all the time?
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Friday, March 08, 2013
Quantum communication 10 000 times faster than the light
Chinese physicists measure speed of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’: At least 10,000 times faster than light
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Thursday, March 07, 2013
Hotter than in a previous 11 000 year, ever
The report shows that at current carbon use trends, we've got roughly sixteen years before we surpass the maximum amount that would keep us from surpassing the two-degree warming.
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Wright's Law
Wright's Law
Super exponential growth is more likely and more complex dynamics in the future of technology advancement is possible.
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Super exponential growth is more likely and more complex dynamics in the future of technology advancement is possible.
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Next thing: Internet of things
You know, your pet online, your pool online, etc.
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013
European Extra Large Telescope in 2022, 16 x more precise than the retired Hubble
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Monday, March 04, 2013
RED ALLERT: Why a Founding Father of Postwar Capitalism Spied for the Soviets
White installed the groundwork for a dollar-centric postwar order
antithetical to long-standing British interests, particularly as they
related to the United Kingdom's collapsing colonial empire. Even White's
closest colleagues were unaware, however, that his postwar vision
involved a far more radical reordering of U.S. foreign policy, centered on the establishment of a close permanent alliance with the new rising European power -- the Soviet Union.
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Our biggest security threat is our DEBT !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Great Britain empire crash after WWII making in front of our eyes?
Saturday, March 02, 2013
How SSD power faults scramble your data
Flash SSDs are non-volatile, so what could go wrong when power fails? A great deal, even on high-end "enterprise" SSDs.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Two SSD from 2012 didn't fail. HD were more resilient. Advice? Wait for more confident SSD in 2013.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Two SSD from 2012 didn't fail. HD were more resilient. Advice? Wait for more confident SSD in 2013.
Friday, March 01, 2013
Bitter 2.4% cut from a $3.55 trillion federal budget
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