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• 29 September 2011

• News: Thunderbolt Display teardown reveals a lot of chips

  A teardown of Apple's Thunderbolt Display has revealed a large, brushless fan and a logic board teeming with chips.

• 28 September 2011

• News: QLogic unveils upgrades to converged network products

  QLogic today announced upgrades to its line of converged network adapters, as well as a new switch and router product that can consolidate LAN traffic.

• News: Hurd sees long Sparc, Solaris roadmap

  Oracle has developed a hardware roadmap that it hopes can pull Sparc away from its Sun Microsystems legacy.

• News: IBM to lead $4.4 billion chip investment in New York

  Five chip makers, including Intel, IBM, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have committed investment of US$4.4 billion in research and development in the state of New York over the next five years, to develop new 450-millimeter chip wafer technology, the state's governor Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday.

• 27 September 2011

• News: Violin releases two new flash memory arrays

  Violin Memory released an upgrade to an all-flash memory array, doubling the capacity, as well as a new higher-end line of arrays that store up to 20TB per 3U shelf with an aggregate of 4GBps throughput.

• News: OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching

  OCZ's latest SSD, the Synapse, works in conjunction with a computer's regular hard drive to boost performance.

• News: Oracle's Sparc SuperCluster due by year end

  Oracle has launched its new Sparc T4 processor, along with new hardware that it hopes will turn up the heat on server rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

• 26 September 2011

• News: Intel ships a new generation of Atom chips

  Intel on Monday started shipping new low-power Atom chips built on the platform code-named Cedar Trail, with numerous improvements to boost graphics and application performance over their predecessor.

• News: Apple Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables

  Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fiber optic cables, which should be ready by next year, an Intel spokesman said.

• News: Intel's MIC processor finds a big customer in Texas

  Intel's forthcoming MIC processor will be used by the Texas Advanced Computing Center to build a supercomputer with a peak performance of 10 petaflops that will eventually be upgraded to "at least" 15 petaflops.

• News: Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives

  Toshiba today announced a new cloud service interface on its Canvio 3.0 line of external portable hard drives, which automatically discovers files and recommends which should be backed up to the cloud.

• 24 September 2011

• Opinion: Google Doodle Honors Muppets Creator Jim Henson

  Google is paying homage to Muppets creator Jim Henson with an interactive doodle that celebrates what would have been the famous puppeteer's 75th birthday.

• 23 September 2011

• News: Apple and Dropbox Join EFF in Fight for User Privacy

  Apple and Dropbox have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in taking a stand for user privacy. In other words, they will not hand over your private files to the Feds if asked--they'll only hand them over if presented with a search warrant.

• News: Mozy ships hard drives to cloud backup customers

  Mozy has begun shipping hard drives to users of its MozyPro online backup service in order to speed up the initial full copy of data to be stored off site.

• 22 September 2011

• News: AMD's product chief Bergman departs

  Just under a month after appointing a new CEO, AMD on Tuesday said that Rick Bergman, the company's senior vice president and general manager of products, was departing the company to pursue other opportunities.

• News: Thunderbolt: Beyond USB and eSATA

  When I started in computing, we had two main peripheral interface choices: RS-232 serial and Centronics parallel ports. Neither was fast. RS-232, which was the more generally useful of the pair, topped out in early days at 20 kilobits per second (kbps). That was then. This is now.

• 21 September 2011

• News: Imation buys IronKey's hardware assets

  Imation announced it has worked out a deal to buy the assets of IronKey's secure data storage hardware business.

• News: EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform

  EMC announced new software capability on its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance that allows users to mix and match unstructured and structured data analytics platforms.

• Opinion: D-Link ShareCenter DNS-325-110

  Slide up the front panel of D-Link's ShareCenter DNS-325-110 two-bay NAS (network-attached storage) enclosure ($300 list, as of 08/29/2011), and it's a snap to install or swap out a 3.5-inch hard drive. Unfortunately, as of the current version 1.01 firmware, there's no support for drives larger than 2.2TB, so you're limited to a total of 4.4TB of storage until D-Link upgrades that firmware.

• Opinion: Patriot Javelin S4 Media Server Bested by Competition

  Patriot Memory's Javelin S4 Media Server ($400 as of 08/29/2011) is a four-bay NAS enclosure with a reasonable set of multimedia features. However, the Patriot is pricey given that it lacks the maturity and finesse of comparable boxes such as those from Synology and QNAP.

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