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UTAC, Sarda and AT&S; Collaborate in Delivering Small, Fast Voltage Regulators to Improve Data Center Energy Efficiency (AT&S; Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jun 2016
(Source. AT&S; Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG) ... Reducing Data Center Cost-Per-Workload ... But power delivery and heat removal issues constrain system performance ... Designers can no longer rely solely on Moore's Law to deliver the needed gains in energy efficiency ... Instead, developers are turning to 'More-than-Moore Scaling,' which heterogeneously integrates different materials and components to improve system performance-per-watt....

Hands-on review: E3 2016: Xbox One S

Edit TechRadar 14 Jun 2016
When Phil Spencer told a small panel at Microsoft's Build Developer Conference he wasn't "a big fan of Xbox One and a half," I had almost given up hope on a smaller console coming our way in 2016 despite the mountain of evidence that pointed to its existence ... At first glance, it's a radically different console, almost to the point that it'd be unrecognizable without the signature Xbox One jewel ... Design ... Moore's Law. A miracle ... Well ... ....

The Conversational Economy Part 1: What’s Causing the Bot Craze?

Edit Venture Beat 14 Jun 2016
Moore’s Law — cheaper compute enables processing-heavy applications that were previously prohibitively expensive Multi-tenancy — on-demand public cloud providers dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of building and scaling a new service Machine Learning — advances (particularly deep learning algorithms), have proven unreasonably effective at ......

Moore's Law and disorder (Engineers Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016
It is forecast that the computer industry will be a much more complicated place following the relative predictability of Moore's Law and its demise, according to The Economist'sTechnology Quarterly in March ... A decade later it was noted that the rate was reduced to every two years which came to be known as Moore's Law which held for 44 years - until 2014....

From the ITEE College Board Chair Geoff Sizer (Engineers Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016
Moore's Law has driven exponential growth in computing power for the past 40+ years ... Aids to the engineering process have tracked Moore's Law, with ever more capable computer-aided design tools running on affordable processing platforms unimaginable a couple of decades ago....

Satellite Startup Shortens Name to Planet as It Expands Board

Edit Bloomberg 13 Jun 2016
Planet Labs Inc., which takes high-resolution pictures of Earth every day from its dozens of small satellites, is shortening its name to just Planet. It’s also adding Autodesk Inc. Chief Executive Officer Carl Bass to its board ... Planet’s image of refugees in Syria. Photographer. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg ... As Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp ... Marshall with a satellite ... We’re strapping space to Moore’s Law,” Marshall said ... ....

Equity crowdfunding can do for biotech what Kickstarter did for hardware

Edit Venture Beat 12 Jun 2016
Building any company is hard, but building a biotech company is particularly hard. Not only do biotech companies have significant inherent costs due to lab space, DNA, and reagents purchase, but the life cycles of the organisms in question limit product development speed ... The underlying technologies – DNA sequencing, DNA synthesis, and lab automation – are progressing exponentially fast and faster than Moore’s law.....

3 ways to improve security as you embrace containers

Edit IT World 10 Jun 2016
In enterprise IT, disruptive technologies become commercially viable faster than you can say “Moore’s Law.” However, if corporate culture and processes don’t evolve in conjunction with the pace of technology, it can inhibit the benefits of even the most awesome of enterprise apps ... ....

Inside China's 'Silicon Valley of Hardware,' Shenzhen, with hardware hacker Bunnie Huang

Edit Topix 10 Jun 2016
In the first of a series of documentary videos about 'Future Cities,' WIRED UK has released a wonderful short doc on Huaqiangbei, the vast market district in Shenzhen, China. The piece explores Moore's Law and its impact on software vs hardware development, and includes a visit to HAX, the only hardware accelerator of its kind in the world ... ....

SA gallops into the future with Lengau, Africa's fastest computer

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 09 Jun 2016
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong could say this in part because a primitive guidance computer allowed Apollo 11 to drop a landing craft on the moon. That computer had 64 kilobytes of memory and 0.043 megahertz of computing capacity ... It was revolutionary ... Moore’s Law, the overlord of computing theory, says the number of transistors in a circuit will double every two years....

How Intel Makes a Chip

Edit Bloomberg 09 Jun 2016
You should probably also empty your bladder. There are no bathrooms in the cleanroom ...   ... This phenomenon is known as Moore’s Law, and it has, for half a century, ensured that the chip you buy three years from now will be at least twice as good as the one you buy today ... Five nanometers is regarded by many in the chip business as the point after which it won’t be possible to scale down further, when Moore’s Law will finally fail ... ....

Part 2, Agility

Edit The Atlantic 09 Jun 2016
This installment is a report on a highly unusual organization at which this innovation and stimulation are underway ... To give an idea of its micro-ness ... appliance market, and Haier does not, that sale ran into U.S. anti-trust obstacles ... * * * ... That is ... But they also use the new production techniques, from the real world of real hardware, that have become available only in the past few years—and that keep improving thanks to Moore’s Law ... ....

Why it's always 1977 in the world of tech punditry

Edit Vox 08 Jun 2016
One of the dangers of expressing opinions on the internet for a living is that you sometimes express opinions that turn out to be totally incorrect ... — Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) September 21, 2012 ... — Timothy B ... There's no Moore's law for the physical world ... The first PCs were slow, expensive, and bulky, but people just had to wait a few years for Moore's law to produce computer chips that were faster, smaller, and more affordable ... ....
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