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- News to know: Nook; Yahoo; Sun; Net Neutrality; Apple; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Burnette: Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader Matthew Miller: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- DRAM errors in embedded systems
- why live with it?why not design an interrupt driven program that functionally tests all memory a little at a time and all functional units, and have this constantly running in the background accumulating data. Statistically a DRAM error would eventually become visible even if it was a minor timing error...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- DRAM errors in embedded systems
- DRAM errors are just a problem for main memory: they also afflict embedded subsystems, like disk controllers, that use DRAM. Where are the problems and what can you do? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Oracle announces Exadata 2
- Cute. No SPF in this box? Hmmm....Well since Larry did not mention that the box does not have UPS tied into itself, the SPF Single Point of Failure for the unit is simply the PLUG. What a maroon. Pull the plug and it's down across the board.What I love about...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- DRAM error rates: nightmare on DIMM street
- Windows.Atleast From Vista has a Utility in Administrative tools in the control panel.Where in "About this Mac"?I'd just like to make sure I know the right place to look for errors. I look under "Hardware/Memory" and see a list of all 8 DIMM slots. There's a column for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street
- A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. This is the world's first large-scale study of RAM errors in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Terabit 3-D chips will keep the flash party rolling
- more than three years ago...flash was replacing DRAM more than 3 years ago... I don't know exactly what you mean by "economic competitor" but seeing as flash has many advantages over DRAM, even if it was more expensive, it was a comparable competitor. And I had a flash BIOS mobo......
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Will flash DIMMs replace disks or DRAM?
- Where do you get drivers for booting off the SO-DIMM?I'm pretty sure that's not an option in the BIOS.Best guess, there would be a BIOS rewrite.An alternative would be (depending on the BIOS provider/vendor) that they would use a Linux BIOS implementation (examples: HyperSpace from Pheonix Technologies Pheonix BIOS...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Will flash DIMMs replace disks or DRAM?
- Flash-based DIMMs open another front in the flash war on older storage technologies - this time against DRAM. When they hit the market, will it be DRAM or disks that take the hit? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Enterprise ripe for green disruption, Samsung VP says
- When it comes to adopting green technology, the enterprise is ready for a "disruptive" approach to innovation, said Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Semiconductor. In a presentation yesterday at the Time Warner Center in New York City, Elliott explained that the industry is...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Deploying Higher Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Datacenters: How Tightly Coupled Data Access Appliances Simplify Scaling, Decrease Business Complexity, and Cut TCO
- Today's Web and cloud computing datacenters have reached a critical juncture as exploding demand for their services has collided with existing architectures and technologies. These datacenters leverage standard low-cost X86 servers, Gigabit Ethernet interconnect, and open-source software to build scale-out applications with tiering, data, and application partitioning, Dynamic Random Access...
- White papers 2009-05-23
- Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun
- Today, Sun announced hundreds of wins across a range of industries for its eco-friendly Sun Storage 7000 series since it was introduced 5 months ago. According to Sun, over 17 petabytes of total space has been purchased, making it "the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever". Sun...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- MSI introduces 'high end' U123 Wind netbook for mobile business
- MSI today announced the U123 series of netbooks, a 10-inch light and compact platform that has sharper lines and more colors than the company's "cute" U100 and insides to match. The U123 uses the latest Atom platform from Intel and basic HDD capacity...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Migrating Server Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs
- Recently, flash-based Solid-State Drives SSDs have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. Provisioning server storage is challenging. It requires optimizing for the performance, capacity, power and reliability needs of the expected workload, all while minimizing financial costs....
- White papers 2009-04-03
- Worldwide semiconductor revenue to decline 24% in 2009
- The impact of the global financial crisis will lead to near record revenue declines for the semiconductor industry in 2009, according to research by Gartner. Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $194.5 billion in 2009, a 24.1 percent decline from 2008 revenue. In mid-December of...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Computer-in-a-plug platform looks to shrink network-connected devices
- We've recently seen a computer in a keyboard, but Marvell is going one better and releasing a new hardware platform that promises a computer in a plug. The SheevaPlug platform consists of the company's Kirkwood processor, 512MB of DRAM, 512MB of flash memory, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a USB...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Micron: We're cutting as many as 2,000 workers in Boise
- Micron Technology plans to cut about 500 workers in its Boise, Idaho 200mm wafer plant and may lay off as many as 2,000 workers by the end of its fiscal year. In a statement, Micron Technology, one of the largest DRAM players, said it is responding to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Dell XPS 625 Desktop Computer (AMD Phenom X4 940, 500GB HDD, 4GB)
- Normally we criticize gaming PCs from large vendors like Dell for failing to keep their specs as aggressively up to date as their boutique competition. But after looking for systems to compare with Dell's new $1,499 XPS 625, it seems as of this writing that the entire desktop market is...
- Product reviews 2009-02-12
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