The InfiniScale IV switch chip has 36 ports at 32+32 Gbps each, totaling 288 differential pairs at 10 GHz and 1152+1152 Gbps of bandwidth. A hypothetical 96-port 10 Gbps Ethernet (XFI) switch chip would need only 192 differential pairs at 10.3 GHz and 960+960 Gbps of bandwidth. Either this is much harder than it looks or somebody’s being lazy.
AnandTech: Intel & Indilinx SSDs get TRIM, Kingston Brings Intel Down to $115.
Amazon Relational Database Service. Haven’t you heard, Amazon? SQL is dead.
Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances. Quadruple Extra Large? What comes next, Double Super-Secret Value Size? (BTW, that sure looks like Nehalem, not that Amazon will admit it.)
BotJunkie: Stanford’s New Robotic Audi TTS Knows How To Drift, Will Tackle Pikes Peak Next Year. The really interesting part to me is the relative lack of visible sensors.
Dave Winer: Who or what will be the BitTorrent of Realtime?
Y Combinator Request for Startups 3: Things Built on Twitter. “Twitter is important because it’s a new protocol.” Ugh. Please don’t feed the monopolists.
