Tid-bits

10/28 - Low cost SANs may be coming our way. Moore's law dictates that processing power doubles every 18 months approximately. Now Intel is saying that data is doubling every 18 months as well. They intend to introduce affordable SAN parts for SMBs to manage their data.

Convergence in IT and CE marches on. WD shipped over a million hard drives for PVRs and DVRs last quarter.

The industry likes evolutionary. Hence the embrace of DDR and its variants over Rambus. The next battle to be fought, in graphics at any rate, will be between GDDR4 and XDR.

Logitech has debuted a set of 5.1 speakers with wireless satellites. So you now do not have to run a lot of wires through the house to enjoy home theater surround sound.