Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Seagate spins 10k rpm disks. Smaller, faster [The Register] So everyone is singing high praise for the wildly fast Hitachi 7200 rpm 2.5" drives. Big Deal, who cares. Seagate is making a come back, punching as hard and fast as they can. SCSI is now Serial Attached SCSI and who knows how fast it's going to finally be when it deploys in a shipping product? Looks like the old 3.5" drive is old hat, and now that a real SCSI drive is generally 73GB, and a 2.5" is around 80GB, why not let it stretch its legs and give it a faster interface instead of stupid ol' ATA. 9:37:15 PM    comment []

Intel Concedes 64-Bit Chips Are Wave of the Future. Intel, led by Craig Barrett, will follow the lead of a smaller rival by building 64-bit capability into chips. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] Those Lying Sacks! They are now beginning to turn tail and side-step oh so slowly towards AMD. Andy Grove's so called paranoia did NOT have any effect in preventing this change in strategy. But kudos to Intel for not riding the Itanic down into a watery grave based on principle alone. Intel is not the most inventive, original place in the computer industry, but it is quite possibly the most opportunistic! 9:34:03 PM    comment []