Getting To The Nub Of ThinkPad Design With David Hill
Those of us of a certain age are very likely to have used a ThinkPad at some time; an original IBM version, the later Lenovo designs or perhaps both. That ThinkPad was…
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Big accelerator Memory, An NVIDIA And IBM Lead Project To Connect Your GPU To Your SSD
Ah bottlenecks, the bane of gamers and professionals everywhere, not to mention the programmers who try to code around them. Over the years the location of the bottleneck has changed and for…
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Coaxing Better Speed From QLC With A Little Tender Loving Care
IBM's Andy Walls participated in a Moor Insights and Strategy fireside chat recently, revealing how they have improved the performance and lifetime of QLC flash in their FlashSystem 9200 all-flash arrays. A…
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Drop That Floppy, Boot From Vinyl Instead!
Hackaday posted a very impressive hack today, letting us know that Jozef Bogin has been able to successfully boot an old IBM 51050 off of a vinyl record, in about the same…
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Banning Talos worship might be worth it, POWER9 still lags behind
Phoronix were recently given access to three servers running three different POWER9 Talos II configurations and compared them to EPYC and Xeon. On paper these systems look amazing, thanks to...
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The Quirks of quantum computation
Quantum computing is up there with deep learning, adaptive AI and other over-hyped terms as having been so heavily marketed that they have lost much of their meaning. Hack a Day observed…
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Computational Phase Change Memory?
A team of researchers at IBM Zurich have come up with a way to utilize PCM as a simple computational device which does not follow the traditional Von Neumann architecture. Phase change…
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A Peek Inside Lenovo’s Yamato ThinkPad Testing Laboratory
During Lenovo's recent ThinkPad 25th Anniversary Event in Yokohama, Japan, we were given an opportunity to learn a lot about the evolution of the ThinkPad brand over the…
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Podcast #455 – Intel Skylake-X, AMD EPYC 7000 series, IBM 5nm, 802.11ad, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #455 - 06/22/17 Join us for talk about Intel Skylake-X, AMD EPYC 7000 series, IBM 5nm, 802.11ad, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
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IBM Announces 5nm Breakthrough with Silicon Nanosheet Technology
It seems only yesterday that we saw Intel introduce their 22nm FinFET technology, and now we are going all the way down to 5nm. This is obviously an exaggeration....
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Honey, I shrunk the silicon
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography has been the hope for reducing process size below the current size but it had not been used to create a successful 5nm chip, until now. IBM, Samsung and…
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Podcast #416 – Intel SSD 600p, Leaked Zen Performance, new iPhone and PS4 and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #416 - 09/08/16 Join us this week as we discuss the Intel SSD 600p, Leaked Zen Performance, new iPhone and PS4 and more! You can subscribe…
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IBM Prepares Power9 CPUs to Power Servers and Supercomputers In 2018
Earlier this month at the Hot Chips symposium, IBM revealed details on its upcoming Power9 processors and architecture. The new chips are aimed squarely at the data center and will be…
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The 8-Bit Guy Disc-usses Floppy Drives
This video, about floppy disks, is a little bit longer and in-depth than their previous one about cassette tapes. The 8-Bit Guy and friends (I'm pretty sure they don't...
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IBM is feeling Powerful in the Core Wars, details on the Power9 architecture have arrived
IBM's Power9 processor is scheduled to appear on the scene just over a year from now and finally we have some details about what it will be. Firstly the core count is…
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Podcast #358 – AMD R9 Fury, Fury X Multi-GPU, Windows 10 and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #358 - 07/16/2015 Join us this week as we discuss the AMD R9 Fury, Fury X Multi-GPU, Windows 10…
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Seagate joins the HPC super team
IBM will be making its Spectrum Scale software available on Seagate's ClusterStore HPC products, which are due out towards the end of the year. This marks a turning point in Seagate's HPC…
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“We made a 7nm process chip and you can’t have one!” – IBM
The heavy hitting partnership of IBM, Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have designed and created the first chip built on a 7nm process using Silicon Germanium channel transistors and EUV lithography. Even more impressive…
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