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• 06 December 2011

• News: AMD launches Opteron processors for virtualisation and cloud computing

  Chip vendor, AMD, has released its Opteron 6200 and 4200 series catered to enterprise virtualisation and cloud computing.

• News: Intel, Micron double density of NAND flash memory

  Intel and Micron today announced it will begin producing NAND flash dies with 128Gbit capacity, doubling the amount of data that can be stored using current non-volatile memory technology.

• News: Texas Memory Systems unveils high availability flash array

  Texas Memory Systems today announced its first high-availability NAND flash array aimed at storing the most mission critical data requiring the highest performance.

• 05 December 2011

• News: Details Leaked on Intel 'Ivy Bridge' Processors

  What do you get if you take a “Sandy Bridge” processor, make it smaller, and give it a little extra kick? You get the next generation “Ivy Bridge” processors expected next year from Intel. Intel itself is still keeping its plans a secret, but details of the “Ivy Bridge” processor lineup have leaked.

• News: Windows Tablets Get Quad-Core Chips

  Qualcomm has promised that its quad-core Snapdragon chips, designed to run Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8, will appear in tablets in the second half of next year.

• 02 December 2011

• News: IDC: Storage growth slowing to normal

  Growth in sales of enterprise disk storage slowed in the third quarter as the industry returned to normal patterns after recovering from the recession, according to research company IDC.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Tech rises on sales, economic news

  Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise hardware and hopeful reports on U.S. employment and the European debt crisis.

• News: Western Digital warns of slow recovery in Thailand

  Hard-drive maker Western Digital has resumed the partial production of hard drives in Thailand, but also warned that some of its operations were still under water from the severe floods that hit the country starting late July.

• 01 December 2011

• News: Thailand floods spur rush to SSDs

  According to DRAMeXchange, the flooding in Thailand that has left the storage industry with a dearth of hard drives has also caused a temporary rush on solid-state drives

• News: Intel surges further ahead of Samsung in chip market

  Intel has taken on a challenge from Samsung Electronics head-on by picking up the pace and regaining its long-held dominance in the worldwide chip market.

• News: AMD moves away from Intel rivalry, rethinks course

  After years of going up against Intel and not fairing so well, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is no longer going to focus on its long-standing rival.

• News: External desktop hard drives buying guide

  External desktop hard drives buying guide Mac’s hard drive near capacity? Time to add more storage The hard drive in your Mac is often referred to as an internal hard drive. An external hard drive is packaged in a case and connects to your Mac usually via USB or FireWire. External hard drives can be portable, generally using smaller 2.5-inch drives and can run off of USB or FireWire bus power, or they can be designed to find a home on your desk, using 3.5-inch drive mechanisms and requiring a power supply plugged into a wall outlet.

• News: Renesas plans upgrade for Japan chip production to handle major earthquakes

  Renesas Electronics will upgrade its Japanese factories so that they can be up and running within a month after a major quake like the one that struck Japan in March.

• News: Sharp introduces super-thin camera module for smartphones

  Sharp on Thursday announced a camera module for smartphones that shoots 12.1 megapixels and is just 5.47-mm (0.22 inches) thick, which it says is the thinnest in the industry.

• 30 November 2011

• News: Samsung ships test units of performance-boosting mobile chip

  Samsung on Wednesday said it has started shipping test units of its latest dual-core mobile chip based on ARM's new Cortex-A15 processor design, which could boost the performance of applications and graphics on smartphones and tablets.

• News: STEC announces high-endurance SSD

  Storage vendor STEC announced a high-performance drive that has three times the endurance capability of previous generation MLC-based solid state drives.

• News: Seagate revamps 'SSD killer' hard drive by adding more flash

  Seagate has announced the next version of its Momentus XT ‘hybrid’ hard drive, a design that pairs a traditional spinning hard disk with a large cache of flash memory as a way of boosting performance without the expense of a full-blown SSD drive.

• 29 November 2011

• News: Tablets to get faster with PCI Express 4.0

  A speedy successor to PCI data transfer protocols used in PCs and interconnects like Intel's Thunderbolt is being designed with tablets in mind, a standards-setting organization said on Tuesday.

• News: Obama wants feds to digitize all records

  President Obama has called for all federal agencies to update their decades-old methods of records management, in large part by moving to electronic records management systems.

• News: HP announces enterprise-class deduplication appliance

  Hewlett-Packard today announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance that's capable of storing up to 768 TB in a single chassis.

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