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Why Intel can’t quit x86

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:00:35 +0000

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. Intel and ARM Intel got into

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Remember Plextor? Now they’re making SSDs.

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:19:23 +0000

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

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The mainstream places a bet on SSDs

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:11:29 +0000

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.

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Apple-Intel ARM partnership makes sense

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:25:23 +0000

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. First, this doesn’t mean, contrary

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Intel and the SSD, 2011

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:33:02 +0000

I saw and heard a couple of interesting bits about Intel and SSDs today. First is that Intel’s new 510 series SSDs are using a Marvell controller, rather than something of Intel’s own design. I’ve seen speculation on both extremes:

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State of the SSD, 1Q 2011

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:19:42 +0000

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

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4 more questions about RAID

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:44:33 +0000

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. Q: Does the choice of file system formatting make any difference when one is

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