Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new 64-bit ARM Neoverse core which they named Graviton2 about a year ago with wide availability in June 2020. Marketing claims they provide up to 40% better price performance over x86-based instances. A footnote clarifies with “20% lower cost and up to 40% higher performance based on internal testing with varying characteristics of compute and memory requirements”. As you know, details can be important....
unconventional magnetic recording
Given the previous posts on magnetic recording, we are now in the position to look at unconventional magnetic recording. In other words, instead of applying a write field of sufficient strength to switch magnetic grains, we look at other ways to switch a magnetic grain. This has become to be known as “energy assist magnetic recording”. In future recording systems this will be required since there is a limit on the applied field one can produce in a small area....
