Comments for: Creative announces Zii system-on-chip

#31. Posted at 06:34 AM on Jan 9th 2009, Edited at 06:35 AM on Jan 9th 2009

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Chrispy_

Creative Labs and well-written drivers do not coexist. This is too big a project for Creative to do well IMO.

I'll be impressed if this ever makes into anything other than a Zen or two.

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#1. Posted at 02:01 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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DrDillyBar

I wonder if this will make it into the PC as some sort of TV Tuner card, or if it will remain in the portable media player space.

#1, I hope they stick this thing into everything! : comeradealexi (#3) «

#3, Everything?! : 5150 (#35) «

#35, Only if it does a HAL2000 voice! : ludi (#36) «

#35, mmm, Caramilk. : DrDillyBar (#39) «

#4. Posted at 02:19 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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adisor19

I hope this proves once and for all that Apple is cooking something similar inouse for their future iPhone/iTablet.

ARM has gotten to a point where it caught up with low end x86 CPUs in terms of performance and it's just a matter of time before it starts getting competitive with netbooks.

Adi

#4, How does this "prove" anything wrt Apple? There's a lot of e... : UberGerbil (#6) «

#6, I think i used the wrong expression/word. Let me try agai... : adisor19 (#9) «

#9, You can't prove a "maybe" : Peffse (#13) «

#13, Umm, yes you can. There it is : the Zii has enough ... : adisor19 (#16) «

#16, Technically my 386 colo box has enough power to ... : Kurlon (#20) «

#20, You're paying to colocate a 386? I'd say wow,... : Scrotos (#38) «

#16, Because we know exactly how demanding the next i... : dmitriylm (#23) «

#23, We do it all the time. GTX 260/280 came out a... : Philldoe (#29) «

#29, Word. : ludi (#30) «

#4, I think what adisor is trying to say -- but can't because he... : FireGryphon (#27) «

#27, Yes. Thank you, that was exactly what i was trying to con... : adisor19 (#28) «

#2. Posted at 02:14 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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kvndoom

I'll match your Zii with my Wii.

#2, Yii? : 5150 (#5) «

#5, no,no,no... Vii! : Peffse (#14) «

#2, Let's all get Hii and play Wii while anticipating products t... : Rakhmaninov3 (#18) «

#18, What about an iii that would blow people's miiinds : Pax-UX (#32) «

#32, iiieee : 5150 (#34) «

#26. Posted at 07:30 PM on Jan 8th 2009, Edited at 07:40 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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gtoulouzas

Winner for "most ridiculously exaggerated hype" of the decade ; besting even the cockamamy scooter-thingy's in that respect.

#25. Posted at 06:33 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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slash3

Hardware widget support on touch displays, OS independent. Mmm..

#8. Posted at 02:39 PM on Jan 8th 2009, Edited at 02:42 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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Hattig

Which ARM core is that using then? A Cortex A8 or the older ARM11?

Edit: oh dear, ARM9s.

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#8, What's wrong with the ARM9? : bthylafh (#19) «

#19, Nothing, it's just not a modern ARM core when everyone el... : Hattig (#22) «

#19, http://www.arm.com/markets/home_solutions/armpp/11961.htm... : eitje (#24) «

#21. Posted at 04:21 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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Meadows

I like the French sound of that.
"I work at Zhe Labs."

#7. Posted at 02:37 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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UberGerbil

This will make for an interesting comparison / fight with nVidia's Tegra. And eventually Intel's Moorestown and whatever AMD tries to put into this space.

There's going to be a lot of pasta thrown against OEM walls, I wonder what will stick.

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#12. Posted at 03:05 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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ludi

Presumably the ZiiLABS and ZMS-05 names arose after they scrapped earlier plans to name this the ZiiLOG Zii80.

#10. Posted at 02:50 PM on Jan 8th 2009

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dermutti

The press release doesn't give a lot of details. Anyone got an idea as to how much power this consumes?

Also, this sounds like it would work well as a media extender if it could be coaxed to do 1080p (maybe require two of them?).

#10, It can decode 8mbps H.264, so it's about as powerful as an A... : Hattig (#11) «