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- Toshiba gets enterprise sassy
- Apple pushes display trends
- People stop taking the tablets
- Samsung dissed by America
- IBM claims lead in cloud patents
- Smart ID cards show flat growth
- China and USA rattle their techie sabres
- Microsoft plunges money into Uber
- EU to decide fate of chip megamerger
| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 05:58 AM PDT
Its storage division said it has released the next generation of enterprise solid state drives (SSDs) for its PX series. The PX04S has four serial attached SCSI SAS models aimed at enterprise applications such as mail servers, database servers, virtualised file servers and primary storage. The dual ported 12Gbit/s SAS PX04S has read IOPS up to 270K and write IOPS up to 145K, supporting up to 3.84 terabytes (TB). Toshiba has high endurance, mid endurance and value endurance configurations with obvious price differences. Here's a snapshot of the range.
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 03:50 AM PDT
But it's an ill wind that blows no-one any good, and it appears that manufacturers of high end displays are benefiting from the extremely competitive nature of the smartphone business. According to a report from market intelligence firm IHS, there's increased demand for low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor liquid crystal displays. That's LTPS TFT LCD for short. Apple has led the wave by including the high end screens in its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, said IHS and the company soaked up more than half of such displays in the first half of this year. It's all to do with resolution with the high end units having 2560 by 1440 resolutions, according to Hiroshi Hayase, a director of IHS Technology. "Due to strong growth in LTPS TFT LCD for the iPhone, Apple competitors are also now increasing orders of high resolution displays," said Hayase, illustrating the trend woth this cute little graphic.
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| People stop taking the tablets Posted: 04 Aug 2015 01:33 AM PDT
And that view is underlined by Taiwanese market research company Digitimes Research (DR), which knows what it's talking about because Taiwan is the engine room of hardware and has been since the mid to late 1980s. DR is forecasting that global tablet shipments will fall by 15 percent in the third quarter of this year – that's the quarter we're in, folks. Apple, DR suggests won't bother launch a new iPad Air for the nine inch size, but will just carry on selling the iPad Airs it's already selling. Nevertheless, the analysts believe – and we believe with some justification – that Apple will ship a 12.85 inch iPad later this year. Apple will not fare well against mainstream Android vendors and Windows 10 isn't going to necessarily make the world a better place. DR forecasts the top four players in the quarter wil be Apple, Samsung, Lenovo and Asustek. That might cheer Intel up a bit, like Microsoft the chip giant is trying to sail its boat through the doldrums. |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 01:22 AM PDT
According to Reuters, Samsung faces some "sombre" years ahead, beset as it is by Chinese companies. But strangely, the story from Reuters seems to think the future is bright for Apple (tick: APPL) and although it's good to root for a home grown company, the writing is on the wall for the Cupertino company too. The truth is – and this is a strange story to relate – the USA is largely responsible for the globalisation of the IT market. National Semiconductor kicked off the trend in Scotland before anyone knew the name NatSemi. In our own so-called United Kingdom, ARM has proved to be a pesky competitor to Hungarian behemoth Intel. Things change and that's OK. It's very nice to see the rise of contenders and we just wish the USA was a little less parochial about things outside its front door. You can find the Reuters stuff, here. |
| IBM claims lead in cloud patents Posted: 03 Aug 2015 07:10 AM PDT
And it has said that researchers and inventors at IBM have filed over 400 new cloud patents this year. Over the last 18 months it has secured close to 1,200 cloud patents. IBM is most interested in big buck deals that involve enterprises and that's reflected by some of the patents it's grabbed. Those include high availability for cloud servers, virtual machine availability in a networked computing environment, and a system and method of supporting secure application deployment in a cloud. Another two patents IBM is particularly fond of is patent number 8,984,134, the snappy title being unified cloud computing infrastructure to manage and deploy physical and virtual environments, and patent number 8,990,950: Enabling granular discretionary access control for data stored in a cloud computing environment. IBM said it's already made strategic partnerships with Box and with Apple in the last 12 months in its bid to dominate the enterprise cloud market. |
| Smart ID cards show flat growth Posted: 03 Aug 2015 07:02 AM PDT
According to ABI Research, only 10 million units shipped worldwide, with several governments canning the projects they'd projected. Russia and Japan put their smart national ID card projects on ice while France decided to can smart driver licences and after being challenged by human rights activists, also decided not to issue a smart national ID card. Brazil also put a similar programme on hold. ABI senior analyst Phil Sealy said the market for government smart ID cards will rely on renewals with flat growth expected this year and next. Sealy said that from a vendor perspective, forecasting revenues is getting to be more difficult. "Politics plays a major role in the overall success or failure of any project, further exacerbated by the majority of projects which are non-mandated and specific to one country which can ultimately be delayed or even cancelled at any given time." Sealy said that vendors need to be patient. |
| China and USA rattle their techie sabres Posted: 03 Aug 2015 06:32 AM PDT
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Chinese companies making supercomputers and high end drones will have to get an export licence before they're allowed to sell kit to the USA. Chinese supercomputers which rattle along faster than eight teraflops will need an export licence from the Ministry of Commerce High end drones from Chinese company DJI will also require a licence to be exported to China, according to the Journal. But Chinese firms will only require an export licence if they're looking to sell high powered drones that have a flying time of over an hour. The USA blocked the export of computer components used in the world's most powerful supercomputer, the Tianhe-2. |
| Microsoft plunges money into Uber Posted: 03 Aug 2015 06:22 AM PDT
Uber, which faces stiff inspection in various cities around the world has drawn the ire of car hire firms and traditional taxi cab outfits. A report in US wire Bloomberg said that Uber will use the cash injection to launch its operations to more cities worldwide. Uber is now valued at close to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg. Last month Microsoft sold a share of its Bing mapping outfit to Uber and both companies have agreed to integrate Uber into Microsoft Cortana – a Siri like voice system that was rolled out along with Windows 10. Uber already has a strong reach covering over 300 cities in over 50 countries worldwide. |
| EU to decide fate of chip megamerger Posted: 03 Aug 2015 06:13 AM PDT
NXP Semiconductor – a Dutch firm which was spun off from Philips – wants to buy US competitor Freescale for $11.8 billion. A combined company would be worth over $40 billion. But before it can snap up Freescale, NXP has to ask the European Union for approval – something it did last week. The deal could pose some antitrust questions so the European Union regulator has to weigh up what effect the megamerger will have on the competitive landscape. NXP and Freescale now compete, but if the merger gets the green light from the EU, there are still two companies that operate in the same sectors – Infineon and Japanese firm Renesas. |
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