Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

It’s about time for an update for Hackaday’s latest project – a modern retrocomputer based on the Motorola 68000 CPU. In this update, we’ll be taking a look at the enclosure, the backplane itself, and ...

You know what no one wants to do? Join a brand’s standalone social network. The problem is that it took Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane four years, multiple founders, and over $14 million to figure that ...

The CS383’s eight-drive, hot-swappable backplane makes its potential use as a massive network attached storage (NAS) chassis a given, but then there's the rest of the case: NAS systems don’t often ...

High-speed interconnects may be used to link chips, boards or systems. The distance between target devices is the major difference. Chip-to-chip interconnects normally span less than 20 inches, are ...

Moving data at gigabit throughput is becoming more of a challenge for copper. Running digital signals with clock rates over 20 GHz for any distance requires fiber. Fiber is already used for system ...

Just when things were starting to look up in Silicon Valley with the announcement of 2016’s first tech I.P.O., another start-up has met its demise. Backplane, the Lady Gaga–backed and promoted ...

A common method to increase the brightness of OLEDs while maintaining a long lifespan is the use of multiple stacked OLEDs. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS have ...

The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope’s hardware development. The ...

“Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused Backplane to buckle under the weight of its own early buzz. Lady Gaga’s social network ...