Adtron introduces 160 GB Solid State Flash Disk - gizmag Article

Adtron introduces 160 GB Solid State Flash Disk - gizmag Article: "Adtron introduces 160 GB Solid State Flash Disk

from Personal Computing (201 articles)

February 23, 2007 It was just a month ago that we were reporting on the sudden jump in Solid State Disk (SSD) capacity with a 32 GB disk appearing nine months ago, then a 64 GB and a 128 GB drive being shown at CES behind closed doors. With the price of NAND flash dropping quickly, SSDs are continuing their rise with the news that Adtron is offering immediate availability of its latest and most advanced generation of the Adtron Flashpak Family of products, including the IDE and Serial ATA (SATA) flash disk models, the I25FB and A25FB, respectively. The products include the industry’s highest capacity 2.5” SLC NAND flash disk drives at 160 GBytes."

Bright Shiny future -- comment on special purpose processors

Special-purpose processors always
choke off real algorithmic creativity as they make us try
to shoehorn new algorithms into a design model often
several years old.
- Jim Blinn
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/38/17635/00814536.pdf?isnumber=17635&arnumber=814536

Wheel of Reincarnation

http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of-display-processors.pdf
Ivan Sutherland's "Wheel of Reincarnation"

It's gloom and doom for the chip industry, says TSMC founder | News.blog | CNET News.com

It's gloom and doom for the chip industry, says TSMC founder News.blog CNET News.com: "'The design cost basically has been doubling with each generation,' Chang said. 'Prototyping is up as well.' "

About MP3tunes @ MP3tunes.com

http://www.mp3tunes.com/cb/about/: "MP3tunes is a MSP (Music Service Provider), providing individuals a personal music locker with unlimited storage online, making it possible to access one's music collection from any device. "

Michael Robertson . com

Michael Robertson . com: "biggest threat to personal ownership in the digital age - DRM (Digital Restrictions Management). "

AMD reinvents the x86 | InfoWorld | Column | 2007-02-07 | By Tom Yager

AMD reinvents the x86 | InfoWorld | Column | 2007-02-07 | By Tom Yager: "Torrenza, has gone from a block diagram to living, breathing silicon. The first incarnation of AMD’s redesigned x86 CPU is Barcelona, that which your non-co-readers will call quad-core Opteron. "

Google Operating System: How to Backup a Blogger Blog

Google Operating System: How to Backup a Blogger Blog: "If you have a blog hosted on Blog*Spot and you've upgraded to the new version, there's an easy way to backup your blog.

This page lists the latest N posts from the blog:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N
Instead of N, type the number of posts. If your blog has less than 1000 posts, you can save this page:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000"