Following the lead initiated by many other companies, SanDisk has posted a "teaser' on its site:
So, far we can expect that it will be related to storage unit and might be based on flash memory (SSD!?). Let's hope that it does not turn into a weak announcement.
Today, the processor industry, with Intel in the lead does not see any reason to deviate from Moore's law, which was beginning to come to an end, by simply multiplying the processors. The tendency does not seem ready to stop and soon our Mac Pros will be quoted as 12 cores and 24 threads, before passing later to 16 then to….
However, for daily use, one does not feel large thing of this increase in the number of "heads" in the machine except when using special application softwares. The problem comes primarily from the software and the operating system that does not know how to use to the maximum these increasingly multi-cores (this is putting it simply since other factors come into play).
Apple has with Snow Leopard desired to define a new base allowing it to benefit better from this tendency of the hardware. If it is a success, it is still hidden, Snow Leopard giving us more and more the impression to differentiate itself from its predecessor essentially by the sum that one paid for it 29,90€…
On the side of Microsoft, they also think of the future and one of their engineers working on the cores system wants to revolutionize what is currently done.
He thinks of a core that would be radically different from what is currently made under Windows or Unix. He wants, as one can do with virtualisation, that in this future operating system he imagines it plays the part of a hypervisor between the hardware and the software that would run on top.
The problem remains that since he will start with a completely blank page, that it would take at least a few years and to find the magic code that would operate at a low level close to the hardware, and that would be able to distribute the required demands among all the cores. This is what Apple tries to do with Open CL, even if this is materialized by a software layer placed at a higher level.
As part of the fight against the fraud, the Russian organization charged to allocate domain names in .ru took a drastic measure. Henceforth, to have allocated such a domain name, it will be necessary to provide a copy of valid identity. Russia hopes with this new constraint to limit to the maximum an aspect of bad reputation which affects it with regard to Internet attacks and the online frauds.
In actual fact, it will not be really useful in the world fight of these swindle in any way. The pirates will have good time depositing domain names elsewhere if they are needed for some of their activity, and the problem will only be off-set elsewhere.
All in all, the Internet infrastructures were not envisaged with at the time when they were launched to fight against of the various attempts to swindle. This is especially true for the email where the systems of authentification are still very rare and the parts added to try to plug the enormous leaks are not very successful.
This is still just a rumour spun by Semi Accurate but it could sound like a thunder clap since Intel, who did not want to support the USB 3.0 standard in its chipsets. The foundry now thinks of rather quickly launching a controller similar to that of NEC about which we recently spoke to you in order to compete with it.
The product would perform the same function and in the same manner. The chip installed on the mother board would come to use the PCI-Express in order to connect itself to the remainder of the machine and would add two ports USB 3.0 to the machine. Note that this external configuration is limited by the bus to 250 MB/s and this is much lower than its maximum but already enough for the rare peripherals on offer that one can connect.
The arrival of Intel shows that they realized that they have made a strategic error. It will nevertheless benefit the manufacturers who will pay some dollars less for their mother boards and thus for the consumers, the offer of machines with USB 3.0 will quickly move to the front of the pack.
On the side of Apple, it is still impossible to know what they will do, and when. It is in any case certain that if you keep your computers during many years, it would be more intelligent if you have the possibility of it and thus to wait for the Mac USB 3.0, the absence of this connector is likely to penalize you greatly in 12 to 18 months.
Sprint has put online some publicity in which they show how to make an iPhone function on a 4G network (Wi-max).
To arrive at this prowess, since the iPhone that does not support 4G, they have conceived an "Overdrive".
This small box is compatible with Wi-max and acts as bridge by creating a Wi-Fi network on which iPhone is able to be connected. Thus, Sprint can bring the 4G to the equipment which is not compatible and even circumvent the simlocked iPhones sold in the United States.
Beyond the customers that could be interested, Sprint especially wanted to show case its superior technological to AT&T that they had already done in the past by comparing the 3G coverage of the two carriers.
