January 2014 – At the kickoff of CES 2014, Bosch lead off with an early morning press conference hosted by their Chairman Werner Struth and featuring Tanvir Afri of the Bosch Automotive group and Juergen Peters, President of Bosch North America. The theme for Bosch is the triad of addressing Home, Mobility and Community. The…
December 2013, Greenliant has just introduced an industrial/automotive grade targeted eMMC NAND Flash SSD with a small form factor BGA assembly. Available in the 4G-32G configurations of MLC NAND, with future products approaching 128G, the products address the growing memory needs for in-cabin applications. High density memory has been a challenge in the automotive arena…
October 2013, At the GamesBeat 2013 conference, we had a chance to meet with Ombio and its founder Tom Meyer. Tom, who has prior experience in the software industry from being a developer at Dropbox, took some time to introduce us to their new highly innovative mobile game VisionQuest. The game is being launched on…
November 2013 – The high bandwidth memory technology recently introduced to the market by Micron – the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) – has made its way into an early adopter system application – Supercomputers. In a joint announcement by Micron and Fujitsu, it was revealed that a new supercomputer prototype board design for next-generation systems…
November 2013, in a briefing for the AMD Developers conference (APU 2013) they introduced their 3rd generation APU and its associated updated development environment to go with it. This third generation device once again incorporates Radeon GPUs with a multi-core CPU but now there is an optimized memory handler called the hUMA which allows the…
October 29, 2013 – At ARMTechcon in Santa Clara, ARM announced their next generation of graphics cores with GPU compute capabilities the Mali T720 and T760. These new cores add to the momentum of the Mali cores in the mobile space with over 20% penetration in the Android Smartphone market and over 50% of the…
September 2013, In a recent telephone briefing we discussed the Hybrid Memory Cube Consurtium (HMC) milestone by one of the founding partners, Micron, of releasing 2GB HMC samples to the engineering community. The full production oriented samples utilize TSV technology to realize the high bandwidth memory interface for high performance computing environments. The technology will…
September 2013, At IDF in San Francisco, PMC was discussing their Series 8 RAID controller for the 12G SAS interface. This is the continuation of the Adaptec product line targeted at the enterprise marketplace. For the definitions of PMC, enterprise storage includes Hadoop in addition to traditional multi-tiered (hot-warm-cold-archive) architectures. These storage networks are changing…
September 11, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Vijay Char from Promise Technology demonstrated some early technology platforms to meet the needs for faster links to and from storage. The emergence of Thunderbolt 2 technology will double link speeds to 20Gbps. Promise is a 25-year old company that has been focusing on SATA and RAID systems…