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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. In addition to claims by M-Systems and IBM, perhaps the most complicated rivalry came from the Chinese company Netac Technology. Meanwhile, the thumb drive lives on.

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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trillion transistors, consumes 20 kilowatts, and carries enough internal bandwidth to stream a billion Netflix movies? SambaNova is after the same title, and clearly Google has it's eye on some awfully big neural networks , too. Of course, Taiwan and South Korea are also making major domestic investments, as are Europe and Japan.

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