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Today, I just wanted to point out some not so recent news from Panasonic. it’s a sad day for all the TV enthusiasts out there. Panasonic has announced that it plans to leave the plasma TV market next year in 2014. Their reasons for leaving the market may have been to due their reported loss of $913 million dollar in 2013. Despite a plasma TV’s superb visual quality and darker black levels, and better viewing angles, it’s been losing in profit to the LED and LCD markets.

Another major reason could be the oncoming of the OLED TV’s. These OLED TV’s are poised to take over the market by providing superior visual quality in color and dark levels. However, it may take time for it do so because of its high average price point. The Samsung KN55S9C Curved OLED TV pictured above has a $9,000 retail price, is that price point worth it for the picture quality? Video enthusiasts, how do you feel about this?

You can view Panasonic’s official announcement here in this link:

https://panasonic.net/ir/relevant/2013/en131031-1.pdf

Supermicro has just released their new lineup of server solutions for 3U and 4U rackmount form factors. According to Supermicro, these servers are ideal for embedded applications such as surveillance, gateway, caching, and IPC (inter-process communication). They’re advertising it as the world’s only 11 slot PCI-E motherboard system. Each server houses the X9DRX+-F motherboard by Supermicro.

Supermicro (X9DRX+-F) Key Features:

The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 processors were reported by Intel to offer up to 45 percent greater efficiency and up to 50 percent more performance compared to the previous generation. This greater efficiency will help reduce power consumption by a lot. This processor will give data centers more power to compute intensive workloads and meet the diverse workloads of cloud-computing services.

This Supermicro server motherboard packs a lot of processing power and memory, perfect for keeping your IT infrastructure from slowing down. The 1TB of memory will help your data center meet the demands of high user traffic. Supermicro packs these three solutions with redundant Platinum Level (94%) High-Efficiency power supplies. With such high quality power supplies, you can be sure that your electricity bill will improve as there is much less electricity being wasted by the power supply.

if your company is looking to upgrade its IT infrastructure and you demand efficiency and performance for high user traffic, take a look at these Supermicro I/O Optimized Building Block solutions.