CMR vs. SMR Hard Drives: What’s the Difference?

H_Ko/Shutterstock.com Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) drives write data on a hard disk in tracks that do not overlap. Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) allows tracks to overlap, which results in higher…

UK chip firm XMOS picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers • The Register

RISC-V Summit British chip company XMOS has revealed its latest xcore high-performance microcontrollers are to be built around the RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture, in the hopes of opening…