http://liliputing.com/2015/07/3d-xpoint-storage-up-to-1000-times-faster-than-...




Intel and Micron have announced a new type of memory technology called 3D XPoint that they say could offer speeds up to 1,000 times faster than NAND flash storage.

The memory is also non-volatile: it can continue to store data even when the power is turned off.

All told, Intel says 3D Xpoint offers a fast, cheap non-volatile alternative to existing SSDs, which could increase the speed and capacity of solid state storage while eventually bringing down the cost.

Intel and Micron says 3D Xpoint also has another thing going for it: while NAND storage has a limited number of write cycles, 3D Xpoint does not. That means it could offer up to 1,000 times the endurance as well as 1,000 times the speed. At least that’s the theory. We’ll probably have to wait until next year to learn more about real-world performance (and the price).

Smells like the death of all the hard drive builders to me ......



..... but my sniffer tends to get bamboozled a lot by them brown icky fumes that generally come out with them groundbreaking Intel "early on" press  announcements .....

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-problems-experience

Here is a well written listing of the major issues seen prior to Win 10 launch day.

Day 10 for the tester writer people, and Win 10 gets rolled all up neatly after 3 days of being out in the real world

http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-10-the-gizmodo-review-1720872266

Boys and girls, there's an entire series of articles involved in this to cover the first 10 days of Windows 10 being used by this particular tech writer person and his crew.   Each paragraph expands into a full article on that subject.

And at the very end of one of the last paragraphs he drops these words of wisdom.

"What you should take away from this is that your mileage may, can, and will vary. And, yeah, that you should probably wait a few weeks or months before you upgrade your personal computers. Everyone seems to agree on that."

http://liliputing.com/2015/08/mediatek-helio-x22-x30-chips-with-10-cores-on-t...

New MediaTek Helio X22, X30 chips with 10 cores on the way




Holy Laptop Chipset, Batman !!!!    its a phone chip though

Six Cortex A-72 cores and four A-53 cores (plus one IoT core for "constant on" for download and call wake-up duty)

Helio X30

4 ARM Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2.5 GHz
2 ARM Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2 GHz
2 ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5 GHz
2 ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1 GHz

Once again, Mediatek is letting ARM's cat out of the bag before ARM has had time to announce the new Cortex cores with their new higher throughput speeds.

  I suspect new lithography levels are involved in this 2.5 ghz announcement as well.  

This smells like a real powerhouse chipset as right now only two (2) ARM Cortex A72s at 2 ghz and four (4) A53s at 1.5 ghz that makes up the most powerful chipset that is out right now for a straight ARM hard macro design.

Six A-72s is an awful lot of scaleable processing power.    somebody is thinking ahead with phone PC and laptops in mind

Qualcomm may be forced back into rethink mode yet again .......

We never really think about it much, but Apple may need to reconsider what they are doing in 2016/2017 as well since Qualcomm and Mediatek and Samsung are all swinging much bigger clubs at each other's headbones in their own little personal donnybrook war.  

It wouldn't do for Apple to be getting lapped by the ARM boys, now would it?

THE PHONE/PC ARRIVES FIRST FROM MICROSOFT  
first blood kinda sorta goes to the Redmond boys ...... because the continuum stuff kinda sorta works

http://liliputing.com/2015/08/this-could-be-micrsofts-first-phone-thats-also-...

This could be Micrsoft’s first phone that’s also a PC



"The image show what seems to be a Nokia Lumia 950 smartphone, and as expected, it seems to be one of the first Lumia smartphones to support Continuum for phones. That’s Microsoft’s new software that allows you to connect a keyboard, mouse, and external display and basically turn your phone into a desktop PC.

Run Office on your smartphone and you’ll get a full-screen, touch-friendly user interface. Connect your phone to a docking station so you can use it with a mouse, keyboard, and monitor and you’ll get a user interface that looks more like a traditional desktop app, complete with multi-pane views for apps like Outlook and windows that can be minimized or moved."

It may not be perfect as is, but as a first shot it will serve to fire off a salvo of other PC/phones and docking stations.

Verizon just caved in and did away with contracts.   Now everybody but AT&T is now a non contract cell phone provider.  Prices may still be different but the ideas are all the same now.

http://liliputing.com/2015/08/google-android-to-support-vulkan-graphics-api.html

Vulkan graphics API does away with drivers, GPU directly runs graphics mode with greater speed and definition.



Watch this 1.2 minute video listed below, it will give you a seat of the pants feel for just about what this software change does to magnify existing modern GPU's efficiency and speed.    

What it does for GPUs actually built for it will be even better.   Because of this compliant GPUs will get much faster and less expensive to produce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_I8an8jXuM      

Jest watch it, in less than a minute you get the idea.



     

And Intel gasps in shock as the first fire hardened stake begins to slowly enter their posterior .....  everybody's existing compliant ARM based Mali graphic processors just got 25% better and all their really modern stuff that was actually designed around open source Vulkan just got >50% better -- completely eating up all the graphics progress Intel made last year ......

Poor Intel, with them having to 14nm downsize and re-use their old mainframe superpower chipsets jest to compete against excessively powerful cool running 10 core ARM cell phone chipsets that are being tossed at them by the armful by them hateful mean & cruel low cost hockey stick boys .......   and with good CHEAP built in graphics in them now to rub some extra salt in the open wounds too.

And MS is actively supporting them now, too.    

Poor Intel, 2016 is going to be a hard year for you.   Because of 14nm thermal throttling issues all you had going for you was 30% better graphics and now that has gone and faded away on you.

Even if you do decide to support Vulkan you will just be one of many to do so.   The new ARM Mali 890 and 900 series GPUs will be harder for you to beat because they will be designed for Vulkan from the very get-go.    And 'ol Gamer Gabe over at Steam, well he LIKES that Vulkan stuff, a lot he does ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

http://liliputing.com/2015/08/htc-lenovo-to-cut-jobs-due-to-declining-revenue...

HTC, Lenovo to cut jobs due to declining revenue

America is not the world, sometimes we find ourselves just better off than the rest of everybody.   Europe has sucked economically for a while, China has had a major economic "adjustment" now and the rest of the Orient is in the blahs now too.

The flow of new computing toys to the USA has drastically decreased of late as Oriental manufacturers seem to be downsizing their companies and concentrating on the lower end of their product lines (because that is where their sales are).

Take Xaiomi for example.   This fall's new blockbuster isn't a premium phone at all -- it is the oriental equivalent of the Moto G ie. a very value filled lower priced phone.    Why, because that is the only thing that is selling right now.

http://liliputing.com/2015/08/xiaomi-redmi-note-2-is-a-125-smartphone-with-fu...



"The Redmi Note 2 might not have as much memory or storage as some high-end phones. But its spec sheet makes the $180 Moto G look overpriced. Here’s what you get for $160:

5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display
MediaTek Helio X10 8-core, ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor up to 2.2 GHz
2GB of RAM
16GB to 32GB of storage
MicroSD card slot
13MP rear camera with phase detection auto focus and a 5MP front camera
3,060 mAh removable battery
Quick Charging
802.11ac WiFi
4G LTE with dual SIM support
Infrared port for remote control functions"

What to take away from this ???    When folks start selling Octacore chipset "worldphones" for $160 it behooves the Qualcomms and Apples of the world to pay close attention since their current $600 offerings are NOT 2-3 times better (nor even close to it).