Did you know that a single human genome sequence constitutes an approximate 140-gigabyte data file? Not surprisingly, it took 10 years and $3 billion to completely map the first human genome. Fortunately, as Datanami’s Alex Woodie confirms, the medical establishment has come a long way since its big genomics breakthrough in 2003.
The Big Data-genomics link
Server market growth tied to increased memory demand
Loren Shalinsky, a Strategic Development Director at Rambus, recently penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering that explores how server market growth has prompted a salient increase in memory demand. “A high-end server can have 48 or more DIMM slots, providing nearly 200x the memory capacity as a standard PC. A server not only requires more memory, but also higher bandwidth memory,” he explained.
Rambus and Renesas Electronics Renew License Agreement
New five-year agreement includes memory, interface, and security technologies for use in logic integrated circuits
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – July 7, 2015 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced it has renewed its patent license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723). The new agreement extends the relationship between the companies until April 1, 2020, covering the use of Rambus patented memory, interface, and security technologies in a wide range of logic integrated circuit (IC) products offered by Renesas Electronics. Specific terms of the agreement are confidential.
“This renewal with Renesas Electronics further exemplifies the value of our technology with one of the leading global semiconductor companies,” said Dr. Ron Black, president and chief executive officer at Rambus. “We have had a long-term relationship with Renesas Electronics and look forward to further strengthening our collaboration.”
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Is software crypto failing?
Although encryption is increasingly used to combat security breaches, a salient lack of expertise among developers, coupled with overly complex libraries, has led to widespread implementation failures in business applications. According to IDG’s Lucian Constantin, the scale of the problem is quite significant. Indeed, a recent report published by Veracode confirms that cryptographic issues are now the second most common type of flaws affecting applications across all industries.
Data centers need a new paradigm
Semiconductor Engineering editor in chief Ed Sperling has written an article exploring the evolution of the data center in the context of the Cloud. As Sperling notes, corporate data centers are notorious for their reluctant adoption of new technology.
“There is too much at stake to make quick changes, which accounts for a number of failed semiconductor startups over the past decade with better ideas for more efficient processors, not to mention rapid consolidation in other areas,” he explained. “But as the amount of data increases, and the cost of processing that data decreases at a slower rate than the volume increases, the whole market has begun searching for new approaches.”
Building the IoT with solar-powered smart sensors
As MIT’s Larry Hardesty notes, the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to boast extremely low-power sensors capable of running for months on a single charge using various energy harvesting techniques. Indeed, MIT researchers have designed a power converter chip designed to both power a device and charge a battery that’s more than 80 percent efficient, even at the extremely low and variable power levels characteristic of tiny solar cells. Previous iterations, says Hardesty, had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 percent.
