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March 22, 2005
Why would anyone need more than 640K anyway
Yahoo! News - New 10-Gig Ethernet Chip Targets High-Speed Servers, Switches
Vativ Technologies has announced it has begun customer sampling a single-chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) transceiver for full-duplex operation over a single CAT5e or CAT6 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable. The transceivers are targeted at OEMs and system vendors developing high-speed Ethernet switches and servers for the enterprise datacenter market.
I wonder what in the world we will be transmitting to need a 10Gb/s Ethernet connection.
I think that there is a "Goldfish" effect in computers. The faster and more powerful computers become the code grows to fill the new capacity with useless eye candy, code inefficiency and complexity. It is like putting a fish in a bigger bowl. The fish grows into the bowl. Or moving up a waist size in pants. Somehow I always manage to fill the extra two inches.
Posted by jreighley at March 22, 2005 02:09 PM
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