Month: June 2007

Item One: There’s a rather interesting interview with the chief technologist at IBM. One short quote should intrigue: “Folks assume performance improves as one shrinks a part. That is no longer correct.” He goes on to say that big performance

All sorts of rumours have been doing the rounds recently about AMD going fab-less following their announcement of an ‘asset light’ strategy for the company. After giving the matter some consideration, I’ve arrived at the conclusion that the rumours are

For those of you who did not read Mr. Shawlee’s recent series of articles, his arguments boiled down to two general categories: Engineering challenges were insurmountable, and The market would not accept the cost of the new format. It would

As was recently pointed out by science-guy Ian Anderson HERE, there are physical limitations preventing optical storage from becoming the storage medium of choice. If you haven’t read the article, or just don’t feel like it, the problem boils down

As an intermediate computer user, I myself personally don’t run into many problems when choosing computer hardware software or peripherals. So when it comes to buying LCD panel I pretty much know what I want; unfortunately that is not the