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New Developments in Holographic Storage

On page 28 of the April 2007 issue, Popular Science published an article on holographic storage. This article is essentially identical, if not as in depth, to one I wrote for this website in 2005 (Holographic Data Storage). I sincerely

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Penryn, Etc. . . .

Intel talked a bit about its upcoming 2007/2008 processors yesterday. Two observations need to be made: 1) This is a die shrink with a few tweaks, folks Outside of SSE4 (which won’t have any real impact in real apps for

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Peaceful Coexistence . . .

In the next few months, we’ll begin to see sizable flash-based hard drives show up. They’ll be expensive and relatively slow compared to what we’ll see two-three years from now, but that’s not what’s interesting about them. What is interesting

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The Million Dollar Laptop . . .

I guess the $350,000 laptop we mentioned a while back didn’t cost enough, so somebody has come up with a million dollar one. What do you get for your chump change? A 17 inch LED screen with an anti-reflective glare

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Wake Me Up In May . . .

Intentionally or not, it looks like spring for us will come late this year, around May to be precise. The AMD and Intel price cuts will be in place by the end of April. We ought to see a bunch

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Memory Prices Plummeting . . .

While the world has been watching Vista and wondering about AMD, something else has been happening: DDR2 memory prices have been plummeting. How much? Almost 50% since the beginning of the year, with most of the tumble occuring recently. Most

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Make Do With Dresden . . .

At the moment, AMD seems to be having two problems: Big Bad Blue: This shouldn’t be any news to anyone reading this website. Intel pounded AMD with its “when you have lemons, make lemonade” policy with its Pentium pricing, now

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Maybe Not So Secret Sale . . .

We mentioned the other day that AMD seemed to be having a “secret sale” on some processors. Now Forbes is reporting more price cuts April 9. They cite a financial analyst, who apparently saw something with an AMD logo on