by John Chen | Sep 9, 2021 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
On August 25, The Wall Street Journal broke news of a potential merger between Western Digital and Kioxia Holdings. Both companies are long-time partners in the Flash Ventures JV, dating back to the SanDisk and Toshiba Memory days. The article suggested that the deal...
by John Chen | Apr 22, 2021 | Latest Industry News
Over the past decade, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and a plethora of other competitors have grown from odd curiosities to arguably establishing new, more open and secure currencies and transaction methods tied to a principle known as blockchain. Without getting...
by John Chen | Dec 5, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS reported that CQ3 ’17 enterprise storage device shipments of HDDs and SSDs posted solid exabyte growth as major cloud and hyperscale customers continue the current cycle of expansion. Capacity enterprise, or nearline, HDDs that provide cost-effective bulk...
by John Chen | Jul 21, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The short answer is, “I don’t know”, but consider where the modern smartphone is today, what it does, and what may it become, results in a few very important points to consider when trying to predict what will come next. The screen is still the most important user...
by John Chen | Apr 26, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Intel made several Optane product announcements over the past couple of weeks, including high-end NVMe-based add-in-cards targeting enterprise servers. Optane is the commercial product name for 3D XPoint (pronounced “cross point”), next generation non-volatile storage...
