There appears to be a crowd on the IoT cloud

So what happens to the Internet of Things (IoT) if all my things can only connect to the cloud of the company who made them? Well, if it doesn't become a 21st Century Tower of Babel it still probably won’t measure up to the next great leap in human productivity being forecast by most of the prognosticators.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

So long, and thanks for all the fish

SageJeff desperately searching for fish in the Black Canyon.

I woke up this morning dreaming about different chipsets and boot solutions, though quickly realizing there was no longer a reason.

Because today I’m writing my last blog for Sage Electronic Engineering. Along with myself, the change the technical to non-technical writer, there are a lot of fine coreboot engineers now looking for work.

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Microsoft gets $8 billion in losses out of the way of Windows 10 launch

Microsoft gets $8 billion in losses out of the way of Windows 10 launch

Going open source would mean Microsoft wouldn’t have to worry if it’s Windows 9 or 10.

Microsoft wrote off more than $8 billion in losses from its Nokia phone acquisition, along with an estimated 7,800 employees, on its way to posting its largest ever quarterly loss.

The good news for the software giant is everything is ready to welcome Windows 10 into the market a couple weeks down the road ,…

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Free demo boot ROM available for Intel® Xeon D SoC

Free demo boot ROM available for Intel® Xeon D SoC

Sage Electronic Engineering, http://www.se-eng.com, has released a free demo boot ROM for the Camelback Mountain reference board featuring the Intel® Xeon Processor D SoC. The Open Source Package (OSP) essentially demonstrates the robust nature of the SageBIOS Board Support Packages, the first open source-based solution available in the marketplace, supporting boots of less than two seconds.

The…

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Skylake Core i7 overclocked at 5.2 GHz HKEPC has posted images to its Facebook page inferring that the new Core i7-6700K can be overclocked to 5.2 GHz…

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AMD aims to keep gamers inside this summer with release of low-cost, quad-core A10 and A8 chips

AMD aims to keep gamers inside this summer with release of low-cost, quad-core A10 and A8 chips

AMD is looking to hit the PC market this summer with some appetizing upgrades to its APU stock.

The A10-7870K, a top-tier Kavari refresh (codenamed Godavari) aimed at budget gamers and midrange workstations, came out earlier this year, and is featured at $140 now. AMD also released another more affordable, though slightly less powerful APU, the A8-7670K at $118.

AMD was noting that motherboards…

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Intel to profit by turning a blind eye to Moore's Law?

Intel to profit by turning a blind eye to Moore’s Law?

Intel has apparently decided that living up to the stipulations of Moore’s Law isn’t worth a billion dollars.

Size does matter as indicated in the die shrink from the Intel Haswell to Broadwell technology.

At least, that’s the amount that Business Insiderbelieves that Intel will save by essentially delaying the change to a 10-nm node until 2017 – essentially three years after the introduction of…

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The tale of two chipmakers: Does AMD deserve such discourteous treatment?

The tale of two chipmakers: Does AMD deserve such discourteous treatment?

AMD stock continued to fall today, losing another 9 cents per share, as fallout over its almost catastrophic quarter continues to pile up. Meanwhile, Intel seemed to be holding steady though it suffered from losses in PC-based chips sales, as well. The big difference? Intel had its server-based chip sales to bolster its report, along with some fancy tax reporting that helped bolster its earning. P…

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Hacking Team breached UEFI to install rootkit surveillance tool

Hacking Team breached UEFI to install rootkit surveillance tool

The Hacking Team was able to infect UEFI firmware provided by Insyde Software and probably AMI, PC World is reporting, allowing its customers to spy on laptops and other PCs.

The hacking company’s tool modified the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) that boots PCs to the operating system, reinstalling the surveillance tool even when the hard drives were wiped clean or replaced. UEFI…

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Sage releases Xeon D BSP with a standard boot in less than two seconds

Sage releases Xeon D BSP with a standard boot in less than two seconds

Contact: VP Marketing, Dennis Batchelor [email protected]; 303-495-5499 Sage Electronic Engineering: http://www.se-eng.com

For immediate release: June 4, 2015

Sage Electronic Engineering, www.se-eng.com, has released the first open source-based BIOS for the Intel® Xeon Processor D SoC into the marketplace, supporting boots of less than two seconds.

“The SageBIOS™ Board Support Package,…

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AMD may have stolen more than a march on Nvidia with introduction of High Bandwidth Memory

AMD may have stolen more than a march on Nvidia with introduction of High Bandwidth Memory

AMD appears stoked to follow up on the success of its new Fury and Fury X graphics cards with new GPUs extending its lead in High Bandwidth Memory.

TechFrog is reporting that AMD will quickly follow up on the Fiji GPU technology featuring HBM with a new range of GPUS, and already is having trouble keeping its production partners stocked, given the orders for graphics cards.

According to AMD, HBM…

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Intel to slip in fabrication lead, Skylake release? It's not probable

Intel to slip in fabrication lead, Skylake release? It’s not probable

There’s hardly ever a shortage of rumors about what’s going on at Intel, but this week certainly started off with a rush.

At the heart of things are the release of 2nd quarter sales numbers, which are expected to fall with the decline of PC sales. Rival x86 chip manufacturer AMD saw its market capital fall about 15 percent overnight last week when it announced its adjusted projections.

But while…

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Intel, HP announce new alliance for HPC at ISC

Intel, HP announce new alliance for HPC at ISC

The news coming out of ISC 2015 supercomputing conference is an announcement that Intel and Hewlett-Packard are working together on an alliance for HPC, or High Performance Computing.

With cloud computing looking more to data analytics, rather than tradition HPC, the two x86 processing giants want to make sure they have scalable system that can address both. HP want a bigger slice of the cloud,…

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U.S. government computer breach affect 21.5 million

U.S. government computer breach affect 21.5 million

A colossal breach of government data archives probably affects as many as 21.5 million people – every person who has submitted to a government background check in the last 15 years – the Obama administration is now admitting.

The computer breach resulted in the loss of incredibly sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers and fingerprints, the New York Times reported this…

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AMD delivers an eye-popping 32GB server GPU

AMD delivers an eye-popping 32GB server GPU

Leveraging on work for what apparently is a supercomputing clients, AMD announced a 32GB single GPU server card, capable of delivering up to 5.24 teraFlops of peak single-precision, and 2.62 teraFlops of double-precision compute performance.

“AMD is recognized as an HPC (High Performance Computing) industry innovator as the graphics provider with the top spot on the November 2014 Green500 List.…

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Intel Skylake comes out swinging Aug. 5 with Core i7 and Core i5 processors

Intel Skylake comes out swinging Aug. 5 with Core i7 and Core i5 processors

Apparently Intel is planning to roll out Skylake Core i5 and i7 processors on Aug. 5, pretty much ending Broadwell’s brief reign in the PC market. While probably not in time for the back-to-school market, the new Skylake architecture can be expected to dominate holiday consumer products, at least of PC varieties.Benchlife.info – the Chinese website apparently immune to NDAs – once again released…

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RISC vs. CISC may now be a mute point

RISC vs. CISC may now be a mute point

Apparently the debate over reduced (RISC) or complex (CISC) instruction sets is mute, as there really aren’t any pure RISC or CISC processors being made any more, according to a recently published study in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.

In an article published in EETimes today, study author Karthhikeyan Sankaralingam said the past differences between RISC and CISC ISAs have largely…

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Microsoft to acquire AMD? It's not probable

Microsoft to acquire AMD? It’s not probable

The latest in the never-ending rumor mongering about who is going to acquire AMD took an interesting turn yesterday with an article in KitGuru that Microsoft Corp. may be interested in buying the x86 chipmaker.

Really? We are going to have to give that the old Captain Jack Sparrow “not probable” treatment. This would be the ultimate…

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