Oct 20, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the IDEMA’s Diskcon event, there were two main topic for the presentation – the technology behind increasing areal density for rotating media (HDDs) and the consumption appetite of the cloud and media content as the new the driver of the marketplace. With storage and compute in [...]
October 25, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Xilinx introduced their new high capacity FPGA the Virtex-7 2000T. The device is single package product that is a low power replacement of multiple ASICs and ASSPs in a high performance system. The part is built with a 28nm CMOS process and uses stacked silicon technologies and [...]
October 5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The Linley Processor conference recently focused on new architectures and trends for network data processing. As video and multimedia have become more pervasive in all aspects of networking – wireless, content delivery, cloud storage & processing, and data center core applications. The larger data sized of this [...]
October 4-5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The TV Next conference is a new event that superceeds the Set Top Box (STB) conference that was held for several years. The shift in the name, is also reflective of the shifts in the industry. The next generation TV experience is a combinations of fixed time [...]
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Steven Reynolds from Comcast talked about the future of video service devices in a multi-platform universe. The next generation of services will be delivered via the customer’s on-premise equipment. The service providers consider this new set of services to be in the future. Video over IP is going to [...]
September 28, 2011, Unite 11, Unity Developers’ Forum, San Francisco–David Brevik from Gazillion Entertainment talked about he “golden ages” of gaming. The industry has changed many times and in many ways since its beginnings. Over time, platforms go through cycles and the interesting parts are in the juicy middle of the life cycles. For example, [...]
September 28, 2011, Unity Developers Conference, San Francisco–David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies opened the Unite 11 developer forum by noting the changing business models, infrastructure, and development efforts in the company. Unity is growing and now has world-wide presence. There are now over 200 games on Android and 2,000 on iOS using Unity technology. [...]
October 2011 – Viking Technologies, part of Sanmina SCI, has introduced a next generation storage class enterprise memory called ArxCis-NV. The product is module that has DDR3 components and technology as well as a SSD solution that is large enough to cover data that may be in the DDR3 portion. This module is a battery-less [...]
We talked with Chuck Parker, executive director for the Continua Health Alliance, an organization for health care device makers. The organization recently released a new set of guidelines for personal connected health care devices. The focus of all their guidelines is on three areas; disease management, especially for monitoring in homes and at rehabilitation facilities, [...]
September 22, 2011, 3-D User Experience Technical Summit, Hollywood–Philip Corriveau from Intel and the Chair of the 3D@Home ST5 human factors committee provided updates on 3D@Home activities. To put the activities into perspective, he showed the organization\’s structure and inter-relationship between the various steering teams. They have noted that the user experience is impacted by [...]
