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My friend Jim Handy (The Memory Guy) recently published a blog about Compute Express Link (CXL) and two conundrums he perceives about the technology. CXL is a relatively new cache-coherent memory protocol based on open standards that’s designed to make large memory pools available to multiple processors in large computer systems and data centers. CXL’s…

When I wrote the initial six parts of this series on early transistor makers, I worked from a list of initial companies that made transistors using the early Bell Labs transistor patents. That list of attendees to the April, 1952 Transistor Symposium at Bell Labs came from Bo Lojek’s book, History of Semiconductor Engineering, which…

Once upon a time, cigarette manufacturer Benson and Hedges introduced a 100mm tobacco cigarette. Not to be outdone, the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company created the Chesterfield 101, marketing it as a “silly millimeter longer.” You can still find the TV ad from the late 1960s on YouTube. Both tobacco products were nothing but marketing…

Gordon Moore celebrated his 93rd birthday at the beginning of this year (January 3). Moore and seven co-conspirators including Robert Noyce, collectively dubbed the “Traitorous 8,” left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory en masse and founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. In 1965, as Fairchild Semiconductor’s R&D Labs Director, Gordon Moore published a very short article titled “Cramming…

Puts a picture of each person in his mind, but can you imagine -- i mean, aside from the fact hes honoring our military members, hes also an amazing memory guy, to be able to write all these names down over the course of eight to nine hours. >> brian: it started may 1 of last year. it took him ten months to memorize the names. that number keeps growing. the wall keeps growing and hes here today. >> steve: that wall was completely blank at midnight and he has been out in 30-degree weather doing t...

When he got paid to go the other way. >> hes demonstrating himself to be the very essence of the washington insiders. >> its about serial hypocrisy. >> ron pauls turning out to be the institutional memory guy. hes here to remind everybody what newt gingrich has been like all these decades in washington as a politician. rick perry has turned out to be the guy whos here to humble the common wisdom, here to humble the common wisdom of the beltway media. on paper, rick perry was supposed to be winni...

>> ron pauls turning out to be the institutional memory guy. hes here to remind everybody what newt gingrich has been like all these decades in washington as a politician. rick perry has turned out to be the guy whos here to humble the common wisdom, here to humble the common wisdom of the beltway media. on paper, rick perry was supposed to be winning the race. he was the game changer the media predicted would turn the race upsidedown. honestly, i thought he would turn the race upsidedown. in re...

Really effective ads against newt gingrich. >> everything that gingrich railed against when he was in the house, he went the other way when he got paid to go the other way. >> hes demonstrating himself to be the very essence of the washington insiders. >> its about serial hypocrisy. >> ron pauls turning out to be the institutional memory guy. hes here to remind everybody what newt gingrich has been like all these decades in washington as a politician. rick perry has turned out to be the guy whos...