Intel top semiconductor revenue dog again as Samsung slumps
Intel has regained the semiconductor revenue lead, re-overtaking Samsung.
Fourth quarter Intel revenues were $18.66bn while Samsung’s semiconductor revenues were KRW18.5 trillion, which converts to $16.686bn; below the Intel number.
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Who are the Blocks & Filers?
Most Blocks & Files readers live in the USA and half read content on cell phones.
Three months after the site formally opened an analysis of its readership shows 45...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...
Look to the visible Horizon and witness the future of HDD vs SSD
Disk drive capacity shipped and NVMe SSD sales will both boom over the next few years because more data needs to be stored and accessed faster when processed.
So says...
Samsung squeezes notebook-scale storage into mobile phones
Samsung has announced terabyte-size mobile phone flash memory.
Mobile phones with this 1TB drive should be able to shoot video at 960 frames/sec, turning them into mini-camcorders. Users can also...
Pliops gets funding to build GPU-like Storage Processing Unit
Pliops has secured a $30m investment to bring its Storage Processing Unit into production and is targeting a launch in mid-2019.
The Israeli company aims to accelerate storage stack processing...
Macronix: we can build 3D NAND cheaper than all the rest
Macronix, a Taiwanese semiconductor firm, is to build 48- and 96-layer 3D NAND - and it thinks it can cut industry prices by up to a third.
Macronix is a...
Your occasional Storage Digest, featuring Asigra, Coraid, Fujitsu, BackBlaze, Toshiba and…
Asigra, Coraid, Gartner and Toshiba supply a clutch of storage news to start the week, with better backup pricing, block and mobile phone storage and a supplier-ranking look at...
IBM financials indicate weakness in storage hardware
IBM's Q4 2018 results expose a storage hardware weakness that is unlikely to be fixed anytime soon.
This is not exactly an existential crisis for the company as storage hardware...
Nutanix, Pure, VMware are booming. Other enterprise IT vendors? Not so much
Cisco is discounting its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure product, Commvault is under competitive pressure, Microsoft AzureStack lacks traction, and NetApp is replacing IBM storage arrays, while Nutanix, Pure and VMware...
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Enterprise Storage in 2019: Keep those industry predictions rolling
Updated on January 21, 2019 with more predictions from Pure Storage, IBM and Maxta following the addition of Archive 360, Arcserve, NetApp and StorPool predictions earlier in January.
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