May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA– Kurt Moore from Texas Instruments talked about automotive functions and how they are changing by adding more semiconductor technologies. These technology changes are also driving the auto manufacturers to reconsider their primary objectives and business models, as the industry drivers become greener, safer, and still more fun….
September 2014 – During IDF 2014, AMD had offsite briefings to highlight their new professional series processors. Based on the Kaveri processor architecture with mixed CPUs and GPUs on a single chip, the Pro-A Series processors are delivering performance and reliability. The consumer marketplace has traditionally seen the AMD products in either low end cost…
September 2014 – Part of the announcement and briefing on the new HP Z series workstations was a tour of the labs and Level 3 technical support area for the workstations. The facility in Ft Collins has a long history – nearly 30yrs of building workstations, high performance computing stations and customized graphics accelerators including…
August 14, 2013, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Swapna Yasarapu from STEC moderated a panel on SSD use cases and implementation. Panel members were George Crump from Storage Switzerland, Bruce Moxon from STEC, and Sean Stead from STEC. Stead provided an overview of flash in storage, including platforms and form factors, as well as the…
August 21,20-12, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—David Eggleston from Rambus described the affects that changing technologies have on systems. Moore’s law allows for increasing memory over time and the availability of various storage modes influences next generation systems. Over time, systems adapt to memory. As a revolution, this leads to massive changes which amount…
August 10, 2011, flash memory summit, Santa Clara, CA—Seaung Suk Lee from Hynix talked about the need for low cost, high reliability NAND to enable solutions in storage. The increase in bit density has impacted flash endurance and data retention, adding to the challenges facing flash development. First, some market statistics. This year, flash is…
January 5, 2011, Storage Visions, Las Vegas — digital storage is becoming crucial to product design in consumer electronics. The panel comprised of moderator Guy Finley from Media and Entertainment Services Alliance, Dave Reinsel from IDC, Ho Seong Lee from Samsung Electronics, Tony Kim from Samsung Semiconductor, Kishore Rao from Intel, Robert Pierce from Cadence…