Jan

9

Highlights from International CES 2008

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The world’s largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is now under way at Las Vegas from 7-10 Jan. This year CES is truly phenomenal with many innovative products line up. Some of the highlights I captured from the internet are:

  • Bill Gate Farewell - Bill Gate delivered his farewell speech at the CES. During the speech, he showcasted a very funny self-deprecating video of his last few days in Microsoft. Watch the funny video below.
  • Blu-ray - Sony announced the release of a blu-ray player for the PC. The BDU-X10S is a sub $200 player that will allow you to play back Blu-ray movies on your PC (Ref). Yesterday, Blu-ray made the headlines by winning the format war against rival format HD-DVD after Warner Bros announced that it would use exclusively Blu-ray starting from June (Ref).
  • 45nm chips - Intel unveiled 16 products, including the company’s first 45nm processors for Intel Centrino based notebooks. Among the 16 new products, 12 are designed for new notebook and desktop products and four are for servers. (Ref).
  • New laptop graphics - AMD introduced the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series, with the series as a whole optimized for the forthcoming AMD notebook platform, code-named “Puma.” The chips also allow notebook users to play the Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies in full-HD 1080p resolution(Ref)
  • Digital Freedom - HP expanded its MediaSmart connected entertainment portfolio with the new HP MediaSmart Receiver, which allows consumers to stream movies, music and photos from any networked PC or device in the home to any high-definition HDTV (Ref).

 

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Feb

5

Nvidia and AMD trying to harness Window Vista

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Hector Ruiz and Bill Gates

The launch of Windows Vistas last week has ushered a new era in digital entertainment as well as computing. In the next one year or two, memory-hungry and multimedia-intensive Window Vistas will propel and accelerate the developments of more powerful hardwares like graphics chip (GPU), memory, and microprocessors (MPU) in order to satisfy its needs.

One recent example is the immediate release of ATI Catalyst™ 7.1 on the launch day of Vistas. ATI Catalyst™ 7.1 is a a graphics driver optimized for Windows Vista. It enables PC users to view next generation Blu-ray and provides optimized performance for 3D applications and games. On the other hand, Rob Csonger, general manager of NVIDIA’s notebook GPU product group, was also excited about Microsoft Vista and talked about how it impacts graphic processing in the 3D world in this video or listen to the podcast

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