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Tegra 2

 

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The big star of the show this year was Nvidia’s long delayed Tegra 2 dual-core mobile processor.

Introduced last year at Nvidia’s CES keynote, the 40nm SoC platform features an ARM dual-core Cortex A9 CPU coupled with an ultra-low power GeForce GPU in a marketed TDP envelope of just 500mW.

 

Fud

 

Project Denver

 

 

Denver

 

Acer's Tegra 2 tablet

 

 

LG Optimus X2 -1st Dual Core Tegra phone

 

 

 

 

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VIA Nano X2

 

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VIA's Nano X2 is aimed at notebooks, desktops and all-in-one designs, although the inclusion of cryptographic acceleration technology and virtualisation extensions suggest that it could find a home in low-power servers as well.

 

Nano X2

 

Microsoft Touch Mouse

 

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Microsoft unveiled the Touch Mouse for Windows 7, which allows you to click, flick, scroll and swipe easily without the need for any buttons.

 

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Sony's new Bloggie 3D cam

 

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- 2D and 3d HD video capture

- Sensitive “Exmor” CMOS sensor for HD video and still photos with less grain, even in challenging lighting conditions- Dual Record to enable photo capture while shooting video

- 2.4-inch LCD screen

- 8GB of internal memory

- SteadyShot image stabilization

- Auto Focus

- Auto Macro to focus on objects as close as four inches away

- Bloggie Software for PC or Mac with integrated support of Facebook, YoutTube, Flickr and Picasa

- Sharing to Sony Bravia and Sony Dash to be added later this year

- built-in swivel USB extender

- HDMI output

- built-in rechargeable battery

- “Share it Later” function to tag the clips and pictures for easier sharing when plugged to the computer

 

 

Setting up the CES! -HighResSystems

 

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Seriously wtf @ Motorola ATRIX :surprise:

 

 

 

Motorola Atrix specifications:

* 4.0 inch QHD touchscreen display

* Android 2.2 Froyo OS

* Dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC processor

* Dual Cameras

* 5 MP at rear with LED Flash / VGA camera at front

* 1GB RAM

* 16 GB internal memory

* Fingerprint recognition reader

* Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support

* Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

* Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

* MobileTV Live

* Android App

* WCDMA 850/1900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, HSDPA

* 1930 mAh lithium cell battery

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Toshiba Glasses Free 3D - 56 inch, 4,096 x 2,160 pixel resolutions

 

The demo panels here at CES are 56in and 65in respectively, with both boasting 4,096 x 2,160 pixel (4k2k) resolutions. Rather than previous attempts to make glasses-free 3D TV, which have used methods such as ridged panels, Toshiba claims its technology offers wide viewing angles, and doesn't even require a 'sweet spot' in which you have to sit.

 

 

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Gigabyte G1 Killer X58 gaming motherboards

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GIGABYTE G1-Killer Instinct Features

 

Super Sight Super Hearing Super Speed Super Shield

4-way CrossFireX™ and 3-SLI™

Onboard Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Digital Audio Processor (20K2)

Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 Game Networking Platform

Locked and Loaded Heatpipe Design

 

X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity™

Front Access Control Panel with OC button

5 Smart Fan Connectors

 

EAX® AHD 5.0™

SATA 3.0 (6Gbps), USB 3.0 and 3x USB Power

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 3

 

Dolby® Digital Live

Maximum CPU Power Delivery

 

DTS™ Connect

Dual CPU Power

 

Front Audio Headphone Amplifier

Driver MOSFETs

 

Nichicon High-end Audio Capacitors

 

 

 

4-way CrossFireX™ and 3-way SLI™ Support*

The ability to see clearly through the fog of war can often tip the balance between the winning or losing force. That is why GIGABYTE has equipped the G1-Killer series motherboards to offer utmost graphics flexibility and upgradeability. With multiple GPU support, GIGABYTE G1-Killer motherboards deliver maximum FPS (Frames Per Second), allowing gamers to see more clearly, aim faster, and move more quickly.

Onboard Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Digital Audio Processor (20K2)

Being able to hear where your enemy is located before you see them can put you at a distinct advantage in most gaming situations. That is why GIGABYTE has rigged the G1-Killer series motherboards with the industry’s most advanced audio solutions all onboard; giving you the highest caliber audio experience. GIGABYTE G1-Killer motherboards** are the world’s only gaming motherboards to feature Creative’s top-of-the-line Soundblaster Digital Audio Processor (20K2) onboard with X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity® and EAX® Advanced HD™ 5.0 technologies, allowing you to experience sound in your gaming world exactly as you would in real life.

 

X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity®

X-Fi is a suite of technologies that deliver premium quality surround sound to your ears, whether it is through headphones, stereo or surround speakers and helps to restore compressed digital audio to pristine audio with stunning clarity.

 

EAX® Advanced HD™ 5.0

EAX® (Environmental Audio Extension) is a collection of powerful, innovative audio technologies that bring true interactive 3D audio to PC gaming and helps create more ambience within games by more accurately simulating a real-world audio environment.

 

Dolby® Digital Live

Enjoy audio from your PC through your home theater with Dolby® Digital Live. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, your PC can be hooked up to your Dolby Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection, eliminating the confusion of multiple cables and ensuring the integrity of the audio signal.

 

DTS™ Connect

DTS Connect is the perfect solution to enhance your entertainment experience using your home theater's Audio/Video Receiver. DTS Connect is comprised of two DTS technologies including DTS Neo: PC™ which takes 2-channel (stereo) audio and transforms it into a full-bandwidth matrix of your speaker layout (up to 7.1 channels) and DTS Interactive™ which encodes digital audio sources into DTS Digital Surround, which can then stream out to your Audio/Video Receiver using a S/PDIF connection.

 

Built-in Front Audio Headphone Amplifier

Specially designed for gamers, the GIGABYTE G1-Killer series utilize a high capacity amplifier which is able to drive 150Ω loads, allowing gamers to enjoy a fuller range of dynamic sound with crisper details and less distortion when using high quality professional headphones. The amplifier also features wide band-width, low noise, high slew rate and low distortion, making it ideal for professional audio usage. In addition, GIGABYTE has equipped the G1-Killer motherboards with 4 additional amplifiers onboard for the center/sub woofer, rear speaker, side surround and line out.

 

Nichicon High-end Audio Capacitors

GIGABYTE G1-Killer series motherboards utilize the highest quality Nichicon MUSE ES series and MW series Bi-Polarized audio capacitors at each channel layout. These professional audio capacitors deliver the highest quality sound resolution and sound expansion to create the most realistic sound effects for professional gamers.

 

Onboard Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 Game Networking Platform

GIGABYTE is the only motherboard manufacturer to seriously address online gaming network lag issues by implementing the Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 Game Networking Platform directly onboard the G1-Killer series motherboards. Utilizing a unique combination of dedicated Network Processing Unit (NPU) and exclusive Game Networking DNA™ technology, the Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 Game Networking Platform was designed to give the best online gaming experience possible.

 

- Killer™ E2100 Dedicated NPU

Dedicated Network Processing Unit (NPU) with 1GB of dedicated DDR2 memory helps offload network traffic from the CPU, freeing it up to do other important computing tasks.

 

- Game Networking DNA™

Bigfoot Network’s exclusive Game Networking DNA™ software offloads gaming data directly to the NPU by bypassing the Windows Network Stack, delivering tremendous speed benefits which allow you to move quicker, shoot faster and win bigger.

 

 

 

- Up to 10X Faster

Whether you’re playing MMOs or first-person shooters, the Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 game networking platform delivers up to 10X faster networking performance for a whole new level of online gaming performance.

 

 

 

 

- Killer™ Network Manager

Built from the ground up to give unequalled speed, intelligence and control over online game data, the Killer Network Manager shows the health and performance of the G1-Killer series motherboards, and gives gamers the controls to optimize it.

 

- Killer Network Manager’s Applications Tab uses Bigfoot Network’s exclusive Visual Bandwidth Control™ Technology to enable users to see how much bandwidth they’re using and what applications are using it. Bigfoot’s Advanced Game Detect™ technology will keep the current game at top priority and give it all the bandwidth it needs while users continue to download.

 

Front Access Control Panel

As part of its box kit, the G1.Assissin motherboard features a convenient Front Access Control Panel that allows quick and easy access to 2 USB 3.0 ports and Power eSATA. The Front Access Control Panel also features a Quick Boost button that allows gamers to instantaneously overclock their system with a single press of a button. Imagine being in the thick of battle and being able to get a super charged on-the-fly performance boost without the need for a system reboot.

 

SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) and USB 3.0 and 3x USB Power

When you're behind enemy lines, intelligence data latency can get you killed. That is why GIGABYTE G1-Killer series motherboards provide ultra fast data transfer performance with onboard integration of the latest SuperSpeed USB 3.0 for up to 4 ports (2 front panel, 2 back panel), SATA Revision 3.0 (6Gbps) technologies from Marvell, and an unprecedented 3x USB power boost on all USB ports for the most power hungry USB devices.

 

Locked and Loaded Heatpipe Design

The GIGABYTE G1-Killer series features a brand new heatpipe that was designed to be as deadly to heat as it looks. By effectively spreading the heat from the critical areas of the motherboard such as the CPU VRM zone and quickly dissipating it, GIGABYTE G1-Killer series motherboards remain cool, even when the battle heats up.

 

Modeled after the common firearms issued to soldiers deployed to a warzone including pistol, rifle and ammo clip, the Locked and Loaded heatpipe design utilizes a unique fluting technology similar to a rifle barrel fluting, which allows for maximum heat dispersion.

 

5 Smart Fan Connectors

Further helping to eliminate heat are the 5 strategically placed Smart Fan pin headers which allow for more precise control of system and CPU fans. Equipped with their own individual thermal sensors, the Smart Fans can be easily controlled via GIGABYTE’s EasyTune™ 6 utility as well as in the BIOS.

 

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 3

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 3 design features 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers which dramatically lowers system temperature by delivering a more efficient spreading of heat from critical areas of the motherboard such as the CPU power zone throughout the entire PCB. GIGABYTE's Ultra Durable™ 3 also lowers the PCB impedance by 50%, which helps to reduce electrical waste and further lowers component temperatures. A 2oz Copper layer design also provides improved signal quality and lower EMI (Electromagnetic Interference), providing better system stability and allowing for greater margins for overclocking.

 

Maximum CPU Power Delivery

Like the pistons and cylinders of a car engine, the design of the motherboard Voltage Regulator Module (VRM), component quality and number of power phases greatly affects motherboard performance. GIGABYTE engineers were first to realize not only the importance of using the best quality components for this critical area, but also that with more power phases, there can be more power available to your CPU. With their industry-leading power design featuring the new VRD 12 (Voltage Regulator Down) specification, Dual CPU Power and Driver MOSFETs, GIGABYTE G1-Killer motherboards deliver best-in-class system performance and power stability required for elite gaming systems.

 

Dual CPU Power

GIGABYTE’s proprietary Dual CPU Power Technology allows CPU VRM power phases to split evenly into 2 sets of power engines that operate in tandem. This allows 1 set of power phases to rest while the other is active as opposed to a traditional power design where all the power phases are always active. As such, GIGABYTE Dual CPU Power effectively halves the amount of work done by each set of power phases to significantly increase motherboard durability and reliability.

 

Driver MOSFETs

By incorporating the MOSFETs and driver IC in accordance with the Intel ® Driver MOSFET specification, GIGABYTE G1-Killer series motherboards allow higher power transfer and increased efficiency at higher switching frequencies to satisfy the power requirements of modern processors. Driver MOSFETs also help to reduce VRM real estate requirements for a cleaner, less cluttered CPU zone.

 

GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ with 3TB+ HDD Support

GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ is a patented technology that automatically recovers BIOS data when the main BIOS has crashed or failed. Featuring 2 physical BIOS ROMs integrated onboard, GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ allows quick and seamless recovery from BIOS damage or failure due to viruses or improper BIOS updating. In addition, GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ now supports booting from hard drives that are 3TB (terabytes) or more without the need for partitioning, and effectively provides future-proofing for higher volume single drive data storage.

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Portal 2 demo at Intel's CES 2011 keynote - Sandy Bridge

Valve hails new Intel processor 'a game changer':

Gabe Newell, the co-founder renowned US studio Valve, took to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday to praise Intel’s latest microprocessor as a “game changer”.

Intel’s Sandy Bridge family of processors show a much higher emphasis on visual performance than ever before, carrying an integrated 32 nanometer graphics-processing unit. The chip is expected to open up higher-end graphics performance on laptop devices – something which Valve’s scalable Source Engine would, in theory, greatly benefit from.

“Sandy Bridge is awesome,” said Newell, whose team at Valve have worked with the tech to optimise performance in its upcoming game Portal 2.

“We’ve been using it for a couple of months,” he added. “Sandy Bridge really does give us the great features and performance that we need to develop great customer experiences for gamers. Sandy Bridge cannot only run today’s games, but even the next generation of games.”

In a more ambiguous claim, Newell said on stage yesterday that Sandy Bridge “allows for a console-like experience on the PC.” It is likely he is referring to a more universal baseline standard for triple-A game development on PC; a technical consistency which helps developers optimise their games.
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CES: Seeing PS3 innards can make you sad

 

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There was a table at a pre-CES event tonight that was basically some circuit boards and some girls drinking wine. Naturally, I walked over.

 

Technology company RAMBUS had a bunch of fancy consumer electronics busted open for all to see so that they might show off their handiwork. One of the devices they worked on was Sony's PS3, as seen above and in our gallery. Being able to tell that I didn't know quite what I was looking at, one of the reps pointed out some of the chipset groups on the PS3 boards.

 

It's easy to notice that one block of chips is missing from the newer, smaller board of the PS3 'slim' system. You and I know what that is: the PS2 guts. RAMBUS wine girl told me that the circled area above is basically the PS2 hardware chipset, right on board. She said that they killed backwards compatibility by basically just ripping that part right out.

 

 

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