Radio Free HPC Looks at Recent Trends of Chipmaker Consolidation

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting industry developments from the past week. Samsung is reportedly looking at buying AMD, Intel may acquire Altera, and Micron has snapped up Convey Computer.

Convey Computer Makes Big Data Play with Hybrid-Core Memcached Appliance

The Convey Memcached appliance is a device that “provides an order of magnitude higher throughput than commodity servers, while maintaining sub-millisecond response time.”