Venture capitalists issue startup funding warning
Venture capitalists including Sequoia and Y Combinator are warning that an economic downturn is to threaten future fundraising, meaning start-ups should look to raise cash right now or conserve...
UALink
UALink - In May 2024 AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft announced the formation of a group that will form a new industry standard, UALink (Ultra...
The possibilities of liquid memory
Researchers at nano- and digital technology R&D center IMEC are suggesting memory could become liquid in the future.
Engineering boffins at Belgium's IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) presented a paper on...
Copilot
Copilot - A copilot is an application that uses modern AI and large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 to assist people with complex tasks. Microsoft first introduced the concept...
NVLink
NVLink - NVidia Link is a high speed, wire-based, serial, multi-lane, near-range communications link for Nvidia's GPUs.It has a mesh architecture with no central hub. An endpoint device can...
Three suppliers add ransomware capabilities to line-up
Cohesity, Nasuni, and HPE’s Zerto all revealed plans to add ransomware protection products and features to their line-ups this week.
Cohesity launched an in-cloud secure storage vault called FortKnox; Nasuni...
Storing 25 exabytes in a 2-inch Kenzan diamond wafer
Japanese researcher Makoto Kasu, at Saga University, and a precision diamond jewellery manufacturer have built a 2-inch diamond-coated wafer that can store, they claim, 25 exabytes of data using...
IPU
IPU - Infrastructure Processing Unit. This is an Intel marketing term for its DPU products. See DPU entry.
HAMR
HAMR - Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology which uses laser-produced heat to create smaller bits on disk drive platters than conventional magnetic recording (PMR), that are stable at room temperature,...
GPU
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit - a hardware processor with many parallel elements for computing the aspects of a player's surroundings in a video game or the appearace of a...
Exabyte
Exabyte – 1,000 petabytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
COW
COW - Copy-on-Write. See snapshot entry.