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<title><![CDATA[How the iPad changes PC design]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matthewu</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Consumers prefer light to heavy. Thin to thick. And that's why more laptops will, slowly but surely, begin to imitate the internals of theiPad. Reason 1--Flash memory: Apple's iPad (not to mention theiPhone) is a major force driving flash memory development and production. Apple obviously has a thing for flash chips (so much so that it has periodically made headlines about its ravenous appetite for this silicon delicacy). Laying down a solid-state drive (aka flash drive) on the main system board can alone make for a much smaller, lighter design (see photos). Want more proof Just look at this teardown of the 2011 MacBook Pro to see the relatively large size of a standard magnetic hard disk drive. And witness what's been occurring over the last couple of weeks. Flash memory and solid-state drive manufacturers like Micron-Intel, Toshiba, and SanDisk have all been tripping over themselves to announce denser flash memory. Here's what Micron Technology said: &quot;Intel and Micron...expect to unveil samples of a 16GB device, creating up to 128GBs of capacity in a single solid-state storage solution that is smaller than a U.S. postage stamp.&quot; Translation: next year denser, less expensive flash drives and solid-state drives. And, I predict, more laptops like the Air and Samsung's Series 9. Though higher-performance solid-state drives will likely never rival the gigabyte-per-dollar economics of the magnetic HDD, they will finally come down enough in price that 256GB (or larger) solid-state storage won't be a barrier to mainstream market designs in the last half of 2012. The iPad 2&amp;39's main circuit board: More ultra-portable laptops will mimic the iPad&amp;39's internals.(Credit:iFixit)The 2010 MacBook Air&amp;39's main board, like the iPad&amp;39's, packs a lot into a small space. And, come to think of it, the Air preceded the iPad (and the iPhone arrived before both). (Credit:iFixit)Reason 2--Processors: small, power-efficient ARM chips will gain in performance as manufacturing process technology advances and land in more feature-rich personal computing devices. Designs like Apple's A5 (and future A6) and Nvidia's Tegra are already taking on some of the characteristics of PC processors (two cores with symmetric multiprocessing). At the other end of the spectrum, Intel is racing to get its processors intotablets and even smartphones. And, more generally, Intel's PC-class processors are emulating chips like the A5 by packing more functionality onto the main processor, resulting in more power efficient silicon (the hallmark of the A5). Proof of the latter trend will come this summer when Apple puts Intel's most power-efficient Sandy Bridge chips into the MacBook Air.  Reason 3--Aesthetics: I think it's safe to say that consumers seem to like the iPad. Form and function combine to make it irresistible for many business users and consumers. By extension, this applies to the MacBook Air and similar laptop designs that emerge.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg CEO: All's well, wait til you see what's next]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matthewu</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When the news broke late last week that Digg founder Kevin Rose had &quot;resigned&quot; from his post at the company to go after something new, things did not seem well for the start-up. But fear not, current CEO Matt Williams says--all the good changes coming from the company over the past six months were done by a group of people, not just the Digg founder.In a blog entry on Digg's blog posted this afternoon entitled &quot;the Digg goes on,&quot; Williams once again addresses Rose's departure, while sharing some insights about the company's recent gains in traffic, and its product plans over the next few months. But the gist is that Rose's scaled-back role is nothing new. &quot;Kevin continues to be committed to Digg's success' his role as founder, board member, and Diggnation host remains unchanged,&quot; Williams said, echoing the company's statement from last week. &quot;When I took over as CEO last September, Kevin stepped back from the day-to-day decisions. I'm proud of the great team we've got at Digg, and they're the ones to credit for the changes you've seen and the new direction we're pursuing.&quot;A frame from a February video of &amp;34'Digg Dialog&amp;34' in which Leo Laporte asks Matt Williams about response to recent site changes.(Credit:Digg Dialog/Screenshot by CNET)As for where that leaves Digg with a company figurehead, Williams told CNET in a phone interview that the job had long ago landed on him. &quot;That has been my role since taking over,&quot; Williams said. &quot;Kevin has purposely been the face of Diggnation and continues to do a series of interviews, but most of them have been around investing and start-up investments, more so than on Digg. In fact, just last week I was (at) South by Southwest speaking on the topic of the future of news, and so all the speaking engagements and PR and press activity, and frankly all activity around Digg, I'm handling.&quot;So what about that &quot;future of news&quot; Williams touted to CNET a yet-to-be-released version of the site, due in the next few months, that he says should make Digg more of a target for people to find the &quot;best of&quot; content on any particular interest. &quot;Without going into the depth of how the product will work, what I can say is we naturally want to take any type of interest you have and find the 20, 30, 50, or 100 people that really care about that topic--that community--and pull together them and the news and discussion around it,&quot; Williams said. &quot;I think many Web sites have built some around news and categories, and some around comments and discussion around topics, but what we're going to do is pretty different from what's out there.&quot; Unlike the personalized news feature, however, Digg expects users to be in charge of making the decisions.&quot;Digg made a name for itself in being able to have a community that could curate and build the best of. And if you could imagine a day where there's a best of for many different interests that you have, and then you get to meet new people and have conversations with them around those interests, that's where Digg can play a big part,&quot; Williams explained.That grand vision plays into two other areas the company is focusing on this year, Williams said: personalizing the news to have it feed into these communities, and the company's social ad platform, which lets advertisers publish ads to Digg's home page that look and function in a similar fashion to user-submitted stories. On the topic of the company's health, Williams said traffic is going in the right direction. The site now has more than 6 million registered users, which Williams said is growing by &quot;hundreds of thousands each month.&quot; That traffic accounts for 20 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, with some 1 million uniques a day, he said. Other numbers that have increased are the time on the site and the number of Digg votes on stories, both of which are up 20 percent since the company's &quot;low point&quot; in 2010.He said the company itself is growing once again as well, with new hires' that includes some recovery from layoffs, along with spots that had been left vacated like the VP of engineering, which earlier this month was filled by Ben Folk-Williams. &quot;We had a pretty hefty cash burn when I joined, we've really had to cut back the team pretty significantly about 35 percent of the staff at that point,&quot; Williams lamented. &quot;Since then we've lost a couple people, but we are definitely growing the team, especially in engineering.&quot;So will all these things add up to a comeback success for the beleaguered company Williams seems to think so. &quot;A lot of people still love content on Digg,&quot; he said. &quot;In fact they have a hard time finding the kind of content that we've got on Digg today.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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