Creative Zii...

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Atech

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Something is up at Creative and it dosn't appear to have anything to do with soundcards:

http://creativezii.com/

“With an investment that spans over 10 years, over a billion dollars and over 10,000 man-years, the world is poised to experience a breakthrough that will better lives beyond our imagination.”

Anyone have anymore info, as it's not so often hardware just pops up out of the blue, so this cahought my interest.
 
Atech said:

“With an investment that spans over 10 years, over a billion dollars and over 10,000 man-years, the world is poised to experience a breakthrough that will better lives beyond our imagination.”
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Jesus Christ no wonder the economy sucks.
 
And the mystery is over...this is NOT an X-fi replacement:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/creativ...s--nano-size-supercomputer/6408.html?doc=6408
About two weeks ago Creative put up a teaser site about something called the Zii. It quite obviously wasn't a sound chip, and everyone was left wondering what Creative had gotten up to this time.

A short while ago we finally got to know what this Zii thing actually is. StemCell computing. . Soon to be officially unveiled at CES, the Zii may well become one of the most important products ever launched by Creative, perhaps even surpassing the Sound Blaster of yore.
Creative has invested many years and more than US$1b into the development of the Zii, which will form the core of many future Creative products. Zii stands for ZEN II or Zen 2nd Generation and it is not just a chip but a platform comprises of Processor, Board, SDK, Middleware, Optimized OS etc.
Creative's buyover of 3DLabs back in 2002ack in 2002 when Creative bought over 3DLabs, the intention is to get hold of their next generation graphics architecture that said to be highly scalable and programmable.
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Read more at the source :)
 
I don't know about this, I've seen the video and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
It seems like it could be pretty awesome in TVs, consumer electronics (PMP, portable gaming systems, etc) and other things of that sort but I don't know if it'll take off in PC's except in audio cards and stuff like that.
I'm especially skeptical about the "hypercomputer" part, I would think that it would be impractical for that for the same reason GPU's aren't used in HPC work.
 
Uberbob102000 said:
I don't know about this, I've seen the video and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
It seems like it could be pretty awesome in TVs, consumer electronics (PMP, portable gaming systems, etc) and other things of that sort but I don't know if it'll take off in PC's except in audio cards and stuff like that.
I'm especially skeptical about the "hypercomputer" part, I would think that it would be impractical for that for the same reason GPU's aren't used in HPC work.
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This might help you understand:
http://www.zii.com/resource/zms/DMS05-PB-23DEC08.pdf
(Data sheet)
 
Uberbob102000 said:
I don't know about this, I've seen the video and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
It seems like it could be pretty awesome in TVs, consumer electronics (PMP, portable gaming systems, etc) and other things of that sort but I don't know if it'll take off in PC's except in audio cards and stuff like that.
I'm especially skeptical about the "hypercomputer" part, I would think that it would be impractical for that for the same reason GPU's aren't used in HPC work.
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It appears to be designed primarily for portable electronics, not TVs or PCs. It could potentially be useful as an integrated all-in-one media solution for motherboards, but I think you're far more likely to see it in PDAs and media players.
 
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