TGDaily has a nice article on all the buzz coming out of Intel and their Terascale project. 80 Processors on a single chip to produce 1.8 TeraFlops.

If you are a tech head or a hardware slut, you have to check out the article. This is not the future processor, but a prime example of processor level of “networked computers” all on a single wafer. Not that this actual chip will be our future, but this kind of design I can only imagine we will see more of. Interconnected processing units all interconnected for the ultimate benefit of the whole.

Intel squeezes 1.8 TFlops out of one processor

Hey can anyone think of a few similarities if you add some AI to these wafers!

Skynet
TitanNet
Self-Aware AI

We all laugh about these things (heck we make movies about them) but heck back in 2000 Billy Joy, Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems at the time. In Wired magazine article, stated “Our most powerful 21st-century technologies — robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech — are threatening to make humans a endangered species.”

How many more years does it take before this really does become a concern. Just something to ponder. I don’t think Sony’s Ibo is going to take over the kids, but when do we past that point of no return. Hmmmm

Ok, this is really open for comments here.. but after I noticed a UK article was now showing up on Reuters, it has caused a little concern in people and technology.

Obedient motorist crashes on satnav command

Are we this incapable of deciding whether little Johnny should jump (or in this case drive his car onto a railroad) off a bridge?

Or have the Germans become this reliant (and I only refer to Germans since this is what the article is referencing) that they can no longer even drive their car using their own brains?

Here is another article from Dec that seem to be providing proof of this navigation brain drain!

Crash, bang with satellite navigation

Does this concern anyone else? Has anyone else actually did what their nav system told them to do and it was really wrong?

I have followed the storage industry now for over 10 years. It has really evolved (in the enterprise realm) and even in the home market with NAS products. However, the limiting factor has always come back to the actual base product the actual drives.

Well Seagate has done it today. World fastest drive that is actually smaller and 30% more energy efficient. Now that is a change. Check out their press release:

Seagate Introduces First Small Form Factor 15K Enterprise Hard Drive - Savvio 15K - The World’s Fastest Drive

“The Savvio 15K drive’s unique combination of features including its 70 percent smaller size, lower power consumption (30 percent lower than any other 15K drive), industry’s fastest seek time and the industry’s highest reliability, make it the ideal storage solution for all server platforms.”

In large install bases this can really add up to a savings in the enterprise arena. Something HP has been chomping at since 2005. It only took a couple more years.

I would expect to see greater SAN products with greater densities with smaller physical and energy footprints to come out this year as a result. This could be a huge win for Seagate if the wish is really true!