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  1. IBM 210 GHz SiGe transistors by MacDork · · Score: 2, Informative · on NTT Verifies Diamond Semiconductor Operation At 81 GHz

    Is the diamond transistor really even all that special? IBM announced a 210 GHz transistor a long time ago. Any wonder why the PPC 970s are kicking the crap out of anything Intel has to offer? [Sorry, I couldn't resist ;)]

  2. Example asynchrounus CPUs by helge · · Score: 4 · on Clockless Computing?
    Asynchronous CPUs have existed for a while. They don't seem to have become very popular, though. Apparently, they don't give the power/speed advantage that you would expect at first glance. A quick search with Google gave this:

    Asynchronous ARM core nears commercial debut (1998)
    ARM researches asynchronous CPU design (feb 1995)
    AMULET3: A High-Performance Self-Timed ARM Microprocessor (1998)

  3. Re:An old Techweb article (and more!) by anonicon · · Score: 1 · on Massive Storage Advances
    This is really ancient by tech standards. This 12/11/99 Constellation 3D article describing their FMD storage technology (more vaporware) cites the Keele storage as competition: Startup C3D Demos multilayer optical storage.

    Here's another article from 8/23/99 from the EDTN Network: EDTN Network
    And for a completely ad nauseuous rehash of this vaporware from UGeek Geek News, 8/99: Go and be astounded!

    Remember - if you haven't seen it before, it's new to you!
    Cheers, Chuck

  4. G800 to use FCRAM by Echo|Fox · · Score: 2 · on What Will Be The Next Generation Of RAM?

    If you check out the Matrox Users Resource Centre's news story for August 7th, you'll see a some info from within the latest driver release showing the G800 will be using something called FCRAM. Apparently thats "Fast Cycle" RAM, and is more or less a faster SDRAM. There's a short article here about what FCRAM is. It's built by Fujitsu and is supposedly better for multimedia applications where there is a significant amount of random access. There must be something to the tech, otherwise Matrox would be going with the more standard DDR SDRAM, which must be cheaper to produce because everyone is using it...

  5. Some links: by Datafage · · Score: 5 · on What Will Be The Next Generation Of RAM?
    Since the poster did not deign to supply any links, here are a few:

    EDTN

    Stanford

    ABC News

    Hope this helps.

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  6. Smells like FRAM by eVarmint · · Score: 1 · on New RAM Based On CD-RW Film On Horizon

    Reading this article, I have to say that this technology sounds similar in almost every respect to FRAM, which has been around for years. In fact, SAMSUNG is probably already out with their 32Mbit FRAM part:
    http://www.edtn.com/story/chipw ire/OEG19991207S0006

  7. You missed: A real Copper process by DerFeuervogel · · Score: 1 · on Intel To Drop CPU ID Number

    Of which Coppermine is NOT!
    Now whren did IBM hit the street with a copper process? Hmm ... two years ago? What are they doing in Santa Clara?

  8. Re:What???? by Daf · · Score: 2 · on The Obsessed Inventor of the Paper Computer

    There are several groups working on low cost, ultra light screens. There is an article here that talks about some of the work going on.


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    To start press any key...Where's the any key?

  9. Re:I feel a bit better about living in the US now by Greyfox · · Score: 1 · on The Porn - MP3 Connection
    The RIAA most likely participated in some of those scenes of teenage sex. Look at the images they push on us. The female artists have more plastic in their bodies than your average Barbie doll and always look like jailbait, even though a few of them are through menopause.

    Yes indeed, Pedophiles are one of the horsemen of the infocalypse. I remember Pedophiles and Terrorists. Anyone recall the other two? Organized crime maybe? Anyway...

    They're not going to stop anyone; the genie's out of the bottle. They best they can hope for now is to delay it until they can figure out how to make money off of it (Or get the hardware manufacturers in line with devices that don't allow recording, such as the shit referenced here.)

  10. The road to USB 2.0 won't be easy... by Dave+Zarzycki · · Score: 1 · on USB2 Specs Are In
    I found this article rather informative:

    http://www.edtn.com/analog/c028.htm

    BTW - By the time USB 2.0 arrives, FireWire should up to 800 or 1600 Mbps. But that doesn't really matter. Even if the future USB 2.0 reaches today's FireWire throughput, it doesn't fix the USB protocol.

    The fundamental problem with USB is that is was designed to be a CPU pig (thank you Intel). FireWire is the polar opposite and can do cool things like have your (FireWire) hard drive DMA a video stream directly from your camcorder.

  11. USB 2.0 vs. 1394 by John+Siracusa · · Score: 2 · on Is firewire dying?

    Here's an informative URL:

    USB 2.0 vs. 1394

    For the lazy and/or illiterate, here's the bottom line:

    • IEEE 1394 licensing is not an issue anymore (patent pool)
    • IEEE 1394 does 400Mbps right now.
    • USB 2.0 is "expected to perform in the 360-480Mb per second range" some time in the future.

    USB 2.0 could conceivably push IEEE 1394 into a niche, but it would be a huge, huge shame, and it would have absolutely nothing to do with superior technology. What else is new in the PC industry...

  12. Genetic algorithms in signal routing by Tekmage · · Score: 3 · on Silicon Chip Survival of the Fittest

    Circuit evolution raises yields on GHz chips - something of a more recent vintage. :-)