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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The problem of persistent and reliable storage plagues us all. There are a myriad of solutions, some more expensive than others, but a dedicated and redundant network attached storage solution is ...

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 ...

The rate of adoption of serial technology in high-end system design has reached critical mass. As shown in Fig 1, this point is supported by the fact that 92% of respondents in a recent EE Times ...

You may have heard the buzz by now about a young startup that’s being fueled by some pretty impressive star power, including the likes of the one and only Lady Gaga. The project, called Backplane, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...