SanDisk has announced their first new enterprise SSD since they purchased Pliant a couple of months ago and their iSSD ball gridarray storage product for tablets and other mobile devices has been adopted as a SATA interface standard.
They claim that desktop processors built on Intel's future, 14-nanometer Broadwell architecture will be switching from contacts based on a land gridarray (LGA) to a ball gridarray (BGA) that could dictate soldering the chips in laptop-style, rather than putting them in an upgrade-friendly socket.
In the very near future, the North American power grid will be populated by a bewildering array of distributed energy resources ranging from building-integrated solar photovoltaics and micro-cogen to intelligent control systems and mesh network lighting.
The microgrid comprises eight 100-kW grid-tied inverters, the rooftop PV array, the lead-acid battery pack, backup diesel generators, and a Web-based monitoring and control system.
They created a material that excluded light with a wavelength of one millimetre (the long end of the infra-red spectrum), using an array of aluminium-oxide posts that were spaced evenly across a grid.