Microsemi Announces SmartRAID Cards With On-Board Supercapacitors And Encryption
Last year, Microsemi released a new generation of 12Gbps SAS controller chips, then incorporated them into a variety of SAS/SATA host bus adapter (HBA) and RAID cards under their...
6 by Billy Tallis on 7/26/2018
Toshiba Begins to Construct New BiCS 3D NAND Fab in Iwate Prefecture
Toshiba Memory Corp. this week held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new BiCS 3D NAND flash memory fab, which is located in Japan's Iwate prefecture. Toshiba anticipates construction to...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018
Intel’s Xeon Scalable Roadmap Leaks: Cooper Lake-SP, Ice Lake-SP Due in 2020
Recently a Chinese university has published a collection of slide-decks from various companies covering a server/HPC event. Among the slides, Intel had a seemingly longer comprehensive presentation describing Intel’s...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018
Intel Provides Royalty-Free License for Data Bus to DARPA’s Modular Chips Initiative
Taking place this week is DARPA’s 2018 Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI) Summit, the defense research agency's first gathering to address the direction of US technology manufacturing as Moore's Law...
14 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018
Samsung Discloses First Details About QLC-Based Client & Server SSDs
It is not a secret that Samsung deliberately avoided QLC NAND with its 64-layer V-NAND flash, in the process citing various reasons. With its 96-layer V-NAND however, the company...
16 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018
Synology 2018 NAS and Wi-Fi Lineup Sneak Peek
Yesterday we published an interview with Alex Wang, CEO of Synology America, and as part of that interview we were able to get a sneak peak into some of...
14 by Ganesh T S & Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018
Intel Officially Launches Bean Canyon NUCs with Coffee Lake-U Processors
Intel's Bean Canyon NUCs have been subject to a number of leaks, notably from FanlessTech. However Intel has finally made things official with a detailed technical product manual for...
38 by Ganesh T S on 7/25/2018
Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series ‘Knights Landing’ Host Processors
Intel has initiated its product discontinuance plan for its Xeon Phi 7200-series processors codenamed Knights Landing (KNL). The said CPUs are used primarily for HPC applications, including supercomputers. As...
23 by Anton Shilov on 7/24/2018
Ian on the iMore Vector Podcast: Discussing Core i9 and Thermal Throttling
On Monday this week I was invited onto the Vector podcast, one of the popular Apple-focused podcasts, run by iMore’s Rene Ritchie. In the podcast we discuss Intel’s product...
12 by Ian Cutress on 7/24/2018
Toshiba Announces XG6 NVMe SSD With 96L 3D NAND
Toshiba is introducing their first SSD using 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory. The new Toshiba XG6 is an update to their XG5 client NVMe SSD for the OEM market...
9 by Billy Tallis on 7/23/2018
Qualcomm Announces Their First 5G mmWave Antenna Module: QTM052, Coming This Year
For the past couple of years now, Qualcomm has been very publicly putting together the final pieces of the puzzle that are 5G cellular. The company announced their discrete...
20 by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2018
Western Digital Begins to Sample QLC BiCS4: 1.33 Tbit 96-Layer 3D NAND
Western Digital has started sampling its 96-layer 3D NAND chips featuring QLC architecture that stores four bits per cell. The chip happens to be the world’s highest-capacity 3D NAND...
40 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018
Corning Unveils Gorilla Glass DX and Gorilla Glass DX+ for Wearables
Corning has introduced its new Gorilla Glass DX and DX+ protective glass substrates designed specifically for wearables and featuring not only scratch resistance and durability, but also antireflective and...
10 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018
Corning Announces Gorilla Glass 6 for Smartphones, Doubles Durability
Corning this week introduced its next-generation Gorilla Glass 6 cover glass for smartphones that promises to double durability when compared to its predecessor. The manufacturer says that the first...
34 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018
HP Unveils Z2 Mini G4 SFF Workstations: Up to Six-Core Xeons, Pro GPUs
HP this week upgraded its miniature Z2 Mini workstation with the latest Intel’s Core and Xeon E processors with up to six cores as well as professional-grade graphics cards...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018
Intel Teases Upcoming QLC SSD For Datacenters
Intel has started production of their first datacenter PCIe SSD using QLC 3D NAND flash memory, which stores four bits per memory cell. This isn't a full product announcement...
6 by Billy Tallis on 7/19/2018
Western Digital to Shut Down HDD Manufacturing Facility, Increase Production of SSDs
Western Digital this week announced plans to shut down its HDD assembly facility (near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) by the end of 2019, and then sell the property. The factory...
24 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2018
Xilinx Acquires DEEPhi Tech ML Startup
Xilinx this week announced that it had taken over DeepPhi Technology, a machine learning startup from China. DEEPhi has been using Xilinx FPGA for its ML projects since its...
2 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2018
Corsair Releases H100i PRO CPU Cooler: 240mm, Mag Lev fans, RGB LED
Corsair has released a new addition to its Hydro Series PRO closed loop coolers with the H100i PRO. The newest member of the family brings with it a 240mm...
2 by Joe Shields on 7/19/2018
AOC Launches Inexpensive IPS WQHD 31.5-Inch Q3279VWFD8 Gaming LCD with FreeSync
AOC has introduced its new large gaming display aimed at gamers on a budget. The AOC Q3279VWFD8 is a 31.5-inch monitor and features AMD’s FreeSync technology, but its price...
30 by Anton Shilov on 7/18/2018
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