Like kidnappings of the past, the arrest of Huawei s CFO could bode ill for the abductor
Meng Wanzhou: Simply kidnapped by the US and its accomplices. Setting records for sheer lawlessness while strutting around as defending same.
Few things are as dangerous as a poorly thought-out kidnapping. Kidnappings are serious business, often with unintended consequences. History is replete with dimwitted criminals who engaged in them on a whim, only to discover adverse outcomes far beyond their imagining. One dramatic example happened 90 years ago this week.
On October 24, a mother with young children is kidnapped. She is the cherished wife of an important man whom the kidnapper’s gang is in competition with. The plan is that by abducting her, the kidnapper will create unbearable psychological pressure on her husband, force him to capitulate, or at least damage his resolve.
ASUS and ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today unveiled all 16 of the company’s products that have been named a CES® 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree for demonstrating outstanding innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetic and design within the consumer technology realm.
In addition to the previously unveiled honorees, ASUS Innovations Awards honorees announced at CES 2021 include the ZenBook Duo (UX482), ZenBook Pro Duo (UX582LR), Zen AiO A5400/A5200/A5401/M5401, ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi, Mini PC PN63 and ZenBeam Latte L1 in addition to the latest ROG Zephyrus G14 and ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT. The award wins underscore the ASUS commitment to delivering incredible consumer experiences through consummate design and innovation.
Smart Storage Platform delivers 3x higher performance than competing solutions
CHANDLER, Ariz., January 12, 2021 Server OEMs and cloud operators designing storage platforms for next-generation data centers need to deliver significantly higher performance through PCIe
® Gen 4 x16 CPU interfaces and support for the latest NVMe™ SSDs and 24G SAS infrastructure. Microchip (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced production release of the first products to deliver these capabilities; the Smart Storage PCIe
® Gen 4 Tri-Mode SmartROC (RAID-on-Chip) 3200 and SmartIOC (I/O Controller) 2200 storage controllers also provide proven security and manageability features for the most demanding server storage applications.
“We continue to offer the most versatile and innovative controller portfolio for an industry that is rapidly migrating to PCIe Gen4-based servers and NVMe SSDs for performance storage while continuing to leverage SAS/SATA HDDs for bulk storage,” said Pete Hazen, vice presi