Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and startups, and in the NVMe Key-Value command set. Productised manifestations of key-value storage are more than thin on the ground, however. There has…
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Anglian Water is the largest water and wastewater company in England and Wales. In its Water resources management plan for 2024, the company discusses the value of digital technologies to enable it to reduce water leaks. The 2024 plan revises its water leak reduction targets to a 38% reduction by 2050. In the document, Anglian…
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The iPhone 16 will be available for preorder later this week. While I’ll get the Plus version instead of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, there’s a different iPhone model I know I want: Next year’s ultra-slim iPhone 17 Air that Apple is reportedly making.The so-called iPhone 17 Air should replace the Plus in the iPhone…
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As IFA 2024 is about to start, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the new core specification for Bluetooth 6.0. With this new technology, Bluetooth is bringing Channel Sounding, which could “greatly improve” Find My solutions.According to Bluetooth SIG, this innovation brings “true distance awareness, introducing transformative benefits across various applications,” making it easier and…
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One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all slated to offer their own 2nm-class nodes by that time, Rapidus will need some kind of advantage to attract customers away…
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Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance,…
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The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…
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Apple announced that its iPhone 16 launch event will take place on Monday, September 9th, which is an unusual day of the week for iPhone launches. Could Apple also change the preorder and release dates from the usual Fridays following the launch event?It seems unlikely, considering Apple’s rather strict rules about launching new iPhones. But…
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Apple is widely expected to replace the iPhone Plus variant next year with an ultra-thin iPhone 17. In the past few months, we’ve been calling it iPhone 17 Slim, iPhone 17 Ultra, and iPhone 17 Air as we adapted to what leakers said about it.Considering the most recent iPhone 17 leaks, “iPhone 17 Air” might…
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The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from ‘Flash Memory Summit’ to the ‘Future of Memory and Storage’ this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1’s introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having started off as a host…
