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Why Intel can’t quit x86

Dave Farquhar Hardware March 10, 2013June 9, 2024amd, apple, DEC, IBM, intel, marvell, motorola, motorola 68k, os x, Steve Jobs, x86

Here’s a nice perspective on Intel’s non-x86 efforts, and why they failed and x86 marched on, despite its weak points, and why Intel can’t quit x86.

Kudos for remembering that Intel made ARM chips.

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David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.

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Remember Plextor? Now they’re making SSDs.

Dave Farquhar Hardware April 9, 2012April 3, 20251990s, anandtech, apple, intel, kingston, kodak, marvell, micron, ocz, plextor, samsung, Taiyo Yuden, toshiba

Those of you who’ve been around as long as I have–which is probably most of you–will remember Plextor as the maker of the very best SCSI CD-ROM drives back when there was a market for SCSI CD-ROM drives. I had one, and I haven’t used it in years, but I relied on it, especially when I was doing A/V work. And it never, ever let me down. Read more

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The mainstream places a bet on SSDs

Dave Farquhar Hardware October 27, 2011intel, jmicron, marvell, ocz, samsung, toshiba

I just saw that LSI Corporation bought Sandforce, maker of high-performance SSD controllers, earlier this week for $400 million.

LSI makes a lot of things. I’ve owned a couple of SCSI controllers over the years with their chips on them. I’ve administered servers with their RAID controllers in them. They also make system-on-a-chip solutions.

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Apple-Intel ARM partnership makes sense

Dave Farquhar Hardware May 6, 2011December 5, 20151990s, apple, DEC, intel, ipod, macintosh, marvell, samsung, x86

Rumor is that Apple is shopping around for a new manufacturer for the SoCs that power its mobile devices. And that Intel is interested in the business. I think it makes a ton of sense.
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Intel and the SSD, 2011

Dave Farquhar Hardware March 7, 2011intel, marvell, micron, ocz

I saw and heard a couple of interesting bits about Intel and SSDs today.
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State of the SSD, 1Q 2011

Dave Farquhar Hardware February 18, 2011April 3, 2025anandtech, intel, marvell, micron, ocz

It’s no secret that I loves me some SSDs. And 2011 looks to be a good year for SSDs. Anandtech has a preview of what promises to be the fastest available drive on the market, once it’s released. It may not be at the very top of the heap for really long, but it represents the state of the art for now.

I’d rather not spoil the whole article, but there are two key takeaways from it.
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4 more questions about RAID

Dave Farquhar Hardware November 30, 2010November 30, 2010benchmark, boot disk, CIO, intel, marvell, raid 1, raid array, usb port, windows 2000

Longtime reader Jim ` asked me a few more worthwhile questions while I was procrastinating working on yesterday’s post about RAID. Let’s go to Q&A format. Read more

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