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Over the last few years, the developments in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) network-attached storage (NAS) market have mostly been on the software front - bringing in more business-oriented value additions and better support for containers and virtual machines. We have had hardware updates in terms of processor choices and inclusion of M.2 SSD slots (primarily for SSD caching), but they have not been revolutionary changes. At CES 2023, QNAP revealed plans for two different NAS units - the all-flash TBS-574X (based on the Intel Alder Lake-P platform), and the ML-focused TS-AI642 (based on the Rockchip RK3588 app processor). While QNAP only provided a teaser of the capabilities, there are a couple of points worth talking about to get an idea of where the COTS NAS...
Intel Developer Forum Spring 2004 - Day 2: Roadmap Updates
Mike Fister, Bill Siu and Anand Chandrasekher updated everyone on Intel's roadmaps, including DDR2 for Itanium and some more words on x86-64.
7 by Derek Wilson on 2/19/2004Intel Developer Forum Spring 2004 - Day 1: Wider and Faster
This year's Intel Developer Forum, with it's introduction of a broad array of new technologies, is ushering in an era of change in most things computing.
17 by Derek Wilson on 2/18/2004Consumer Electronics Show 2004 Day 3 - And now, the rest of the story
It was the largest CES ever, and if you thought we were done with coverage you must not have seen us cover many shows before :)
5 by Derek Wilson on 1/12/2004Consumer Electronics Show 2004 Day 2 - VIA's new Gaming Console
They caught everyone off guard with the announcement of a gaming platform, now take a look at how Apex/VIA's ApeXtreme works...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2004Consumer Electronics Show 2004 Day 1: Motherboards at CES
CES is well under way and we kick off our coverage with the latest from the motherboard industry...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Kris Kubicki and Wesley Fink on 1/9/2004COMDEX 2003 Display Coverage: Prelude to a CES
Since Computex Taipei was only 6 weeks ago, and CES Las Vegas is only 5 weeks away, COMDEX turned out to be mildly disappointing for show goers and vendors...
16 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/26/2003Computex Half-a-World Away - Part 1: Intel Roadmaps Revealed
This year's Computex has been pushed back until September because of the threat of SARS, but we weren't going to let that get in the way of bringing you...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2003Intel Developer Forum Day 3 - More from the Tech Showcase
Although there's not much new to report on from today's keynote, we still have a lot of things to talk about from the Technology Showcase. Learn about PCI...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2003Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Day 2: Prescott Info Galore
We found out the 13 new instructions that made it into Prescott as well as a number of other things that you'll find in the new Pentium 4 core...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2003Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Day 2: Learn about Prescott & Centrino
Centrino, Prescott, Tejas and the future of PCs in 2003 - 2004 were topics of discussion this morning at IDF. Read about it all here.
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2003Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Technology Showcase
Read about Centrino, Serial ATA II and our visit to AMD among other things here at IDF.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2003Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Day 1: New Concept PCs
The first day of IDF kicked off with much more than we expected out of Craig Barrett's keynote speech. Find out what the face of PCs in 2004...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/18/2003Comdex 2002 Wrapup - AMD, NVIDIA & Transmeta
We had a long discussion with AMD about Athlon 64 and Opteron, we also saw Personal Cinema 2 and the first Ti 4800 card and we finished the show...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/23/2002Comdex 2002 - Day 2: Intel's CPU Roadmap & Hammer Performance
We got confirmation on our 800MHz FSB information, VIA's KT400A and even got to spend some time with a live 1.4GHz Athlon 64 system - all in the first...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2002Comdex 2002 Motherboard Coverage - Part I
Yesterday marked the first day of our motherboard coverage at Comdex 2002. Most of the motherboard makers we visited seem to be big on Granite Bay (E7205) and SiS...
1 by Evan Lieb on 11/19/2002Comdex 2002 - Day 1: Working Springdale & Hammer Samples
The first day of Comdex comes to a close and we've already seen quite a bit. Everything from a 1.4GHz Hammer to a fully working Springdale board and...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/18/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Hyper-Threading & Memory Roadmap
We sat down with Intel's CTO, Pat Gelsinger and picked his brain about Hyper-Threading for this final piece in our coverage of the Fall 2002 Intel Developer Forum. ...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 2: Live at the Technology Showcase
We spent some time in the Technology Showcase today and got some more information on Banias, PCI Express and Intel's two new PC form factors.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 – Day 2: More on Hyper-Threading
We sat down with Bill Siu of Intel and got a chance to pick his brain about Hyper-Threading. He revealed a very interesting point about the performance of...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 2: Banias Galore
Intel revealed quite a bit about their new mobile processor - Banias. Read on to find out exactly what's behind this 77 million transistor CPU.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2002