Newisys, a start-up hoping to popularize the Opteron chip from Advanced Micro Devices, is being bought by contract computer manufacturer Sanmina-SCI, according to sources close to the company.
The Austin, Texas-based server start-up--founded by a number of executives from IBM, including CEO Phil Hester--sells servers built around Opteron, which debuted in April. The company also licenses its designs and intellectual property to other manufacturers. The transaction is expected to be announced soon, sources said, although the final form of the transaction is uncertain. Sanmina may buy the company outright, or merely buy the valuable parts and leave a corporate shell. Either way, the intellectual property and engineering talent are going to Sanmina, sources said.
Newisys and Sanmina declined to comment. Although its servers have received high marks from those who have tested them (Microsoft showed one onstage at its WinHEC conference in May), Newisys has been facing the grinding pressure of trying to break into the hardware business. Corporate buyers often examine and test new products for months before buying anything, and they generally prefer to deal with established manufacturers.
"They designed a very impressive product that was a little ahead of the market for where AMD processors were," said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64. Brookwood also noted that something of a mismatch existed between the company's servers and the audience for them.
News source: C|net
The Austin, Texas-based server start-up--founded by a number of executives from IBM, including CEO Phil Hester--sells servers built around Opteron, which debuted in April. The company also licenses its designs and intellectual property to other manufacturers. The transaction is expected to be announced soon, sources said, although the final form of the transaction is uncertain. Sanmina may buy the company outright, or merely buy the valuable parts and leave a corporate shell. Either way, the intellectual property and engineering talent are going to Sanmina, sources said.
Newisys and Sanmina declined to comment. Although its servers have received high marks from those who have tested them (Microsoft showed one onstage at its WinHEC conference in May), Newisys has been facing the grinding pressure of trying to break into the hardware business. Corporate buyers often examine and test new products for months before buying anything, and they generally prefer to deal with established manufacturers.
"They designed a very impressive product that was a little ahead of the market for where AMD processors were," said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64. Brookwood also noted that something of a mismatch existed between the company's servers and the audience for them.
News source: C|net
Since ALL other holographic storage technology use a spatial light modulator (SLM) which writes one complete page of data at a time. The data must loaded serially to the SLM and is destructively written so any mistakes on the serial loaded SLM means increased wasted write data time. This method is great for WORM data storage but when BIT FOR BIT Erase / Write / and Read of random data to a disk is needed in real time day to day applications the SLM concept will NOT be able to function.
Colossal Storages method for writing is like having billions of vertical spatial light modulated pages in one rewritable ferroelectric track, each track having billions of SLM's. Imagine having billions of SLM on the disk where the data is written / read in bit / byte / word accurately every time at atomic light speeds.
Ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals offer the possibility of controlling and manipulating light within a UV/Deep Blue frequency. The small size of ferroelectric photonic bandgap structures makes it possible to fabricate transparent optical devices like volume atomic holographic storage having both positive and negative index of refraction.
Colossal Storage has over 1200 of the world's best scientist wanting to prove the patent and holographic concepts of the infinite rewritable random access nanotechnology.
Patents covers techniques and functions for controlling ferroelectric perovskite high-K dielectric binary dipole molecules properties which can be used for atomic holographic optical mass storage of data. The patents deal with techniques for fast data transfer read/write control of ferroelectric molecules which have a data retention life of >100 years.
Colossal Storage patents for ferroelectric optical storage wants to raise data storage densities > 40,000 terabits/cubic centimeter.
One 3.5 in FeDisk will = 20,000 DVD's or 4,000 Blu-ray disks
NANOTECHNOLOGY using Photon/Laser Induced Electric Field Poling Theory Invented by Michael E. Thomas has many other Non-Contact transparent nanophotonic or nanomolecular uses as per the NanoApplications examples below using our Patented NanoTechnology
- 3D Holographic Interactive Multimedia Storage Tablet
- Multiple different boot operating systems on common CPU platform
- 2D/3D Rewritable Atomic Holographic Removable Disk/Card/Drum/Paper
- 2D/3D Rewritable Holographic Disk/Card/Drum VCR
- 2D/3D Rewritable Holographic Camera/Photography/Profilometer
- 2D/3D Rewritable Atomic Holographic Maskless Lithography and Xerography Tool for 3D NanoPrinting and 3D NanoImprinting
- Programmable 3D Holographic In Circuit Telecommunications, Waveguides and Microwave NanoOptoTransceiver Communication Equipment
- 3D Programmable UV/deep blue Laser Photon Emitter Source
- Re-Programmable 3D Holographic Optical Murals and Window Glass of any size for home, office, museum, skyscraper, and movie theatres
- 3D Holographic Programmable Camouflage Coatings and Programmable Holographic Stealth Photonic Invisibility
- 3D Programmable Holographic NanoSwitch for High Speed Bi-direction Optical Transmission & Receiver Optical Network Telecommunications
- In circuit Re-Programmable Atomic Holographic Photonic Crystal Multiplexers for a wide range of light frequencies
- 2D/3D Programmable MEMS/NEMS and Nanooptical Reflective Switches
- 2D/3D RE-Programmable Transparent Optical Nanomotors, Nanoconveyors, Nanoneedles, Nanosensors, and Nanovalves
- 2D/3D Holographic Programmable Transparent Optical Nanowiring
- 2D/3D Transparent Photonic Optical NLO Crystal NanoTransistor to densities > 40,000 tera-transitors/cu.cm.
- 3D Optical, Laser, Photon, Molecular , or Atomic Computers
- Anthrax / SARS and other molecules bioparticle detection and classification
- 3D Photonic Nanocontrolled Biological Particle/Molecule containing ferroelectric perovskites for detection, sampling, monitoring, counterfeit
- 2D/3D Non-Contact Optical Electrophoresis
- 2D/3D NanoCeramic Extreme High Temperature Coatings
- 2D/3D Holographic NanoIntegrated Circuit Photolithography for rewritable in circuit reformation fabrication of existing Optical Nanocircuits
- 2D/3D Photonic/Molecular/Atomic NanoSwitches for Broadband Telecommunications
- 2D/3D Optical NanoLight Valves and NanoRelays
- 2D/3D Precision Reprogrammable Holographic NanoLenses
- 2D/3D Programmable Atomic Holographic Light Filters having both positive and negative index of refraction.
- 2D/3DProgrammable Holographic Transparent Optical Wiring
- 2D/3D Identification Tags / Badges for Products, Identification Cards for DMV / SSN / INS / Passports / Birth Certificates , Counterfeit Money Protection, Money Orders / Credit Cards / Travellars Checks / Tickets, Music and Film Industry and other Copyrighted sources for 100 % Absolute 2D/3D Protection from Intellectual Property (IT) Theft
- 3D Spintronics and Quantum Molecular Computing.
Michael E. Thomas
Colossal Storage Corporation
www.colossalstorage.net
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