MemVerge™, the inventor of Memory Machine™ software, today introduced what’s next for in-memory computing: Big Memory Computing. This new category is sparking a revolution in data center architecture where all applications will run in memory. Until now, in-memory computing has been restricted to a select range of workloads due to the limited capacity and volatility …
Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, who has worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and is a co-author of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect. Jim Keller gives his perspective …
Saudi Aramco has been the most valuable company in the world and it had an IPO late in 2019 and briefly traded at $2 trillion when it was worth 38.7 riyal per share. Saudi Aramco valuation is down to $1.7 trillion. Apple and Microsoft are the most valuble companies after Aramco. Apple is at $1.42 …
Argonne National Labs have developed a new technique, molecular layer etching, that may help develop microelectronics and show the way beyond Moore’s Law. Molecular layer etching could enable fabricating and controlling material geometries at the nanoscale, which could open new doors in microelectronics and extend beyond traditional Moore’s Law scaling. Chemistry Matters- Molecular Layer Etching …
At CES AMD has announced the 64 core AMD Threadripper line, (3990X). It will have super-high GHz clocks, and only $4,000 a package pricing. Nextbigfuture reader and commenter Goatguy notes that combining the AMD super chip with 512 GB of RAM ($3,000, ECC, DDR4-3200) and 4 TB of NVME ($2,000) and a top-top shelf Nvidia …
China’s first Big Fund to invest in semiconductors was made in 2014 with around $19-22 billion. The Phase 2 fund is being put together now and is already at $28.9 billion and could reach $47 billion. The fund is called the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase II Co., Ltd. (National Big Fund Phase …
Top Gear claimed to have drag race times comparing a Porsche Taycan Turbo S versus a Tesla Model S. However, the times for the Model S appear to be from 2017 data. Elon Musk says that the DragTimes analysis is correct regarding Top Gear race. Elon Musk indicates an upcoming software update will give Model …
DNA is a reliable biomolecule with which to build molecular computation systems. DNA logic circuits (diffusion-based) have shown good performance regarding scalability and correctness of computation. However, previous architectures of DNA logic circuits have two limitations. 1. The speed of computation is slow, often requiring hours to compute a simple function. 2. The circuits are …
AMD has released the first single-socket, 64 physical core (128 threads) processors. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors deliver world-record, best-in class performance up to a 2×3 generational performance increase that outpaces Intel Xeon Platinum by up to 87%. AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors set a new standard for the modern datacenter. Driven by the …
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) announced its nine-disk mechanical platform, which includes energy-assisted recording technology and maintains the company’s areal density leadership while delivering the highest capacity available. The company will sample the 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD and the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD to select customers by the end of 2019 with …
In 1999, it took Google one month to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. In 2012, the same task was accomplished in less than one minute. The 2012 capability is about 50,000 times faster. This is slightly better than doubling the speed every year for 14 years. In 2016, a new …