Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jan 2009 22:20 UTC, submitted by Almar
Late last year, Creative launched a website and teaser campaign for a new product called Zii, with the only clue being its tagline: "Stemcell computing". While you can argue whether or not it's smart to focus attention on such a sensitive subject, the product that has rolled out of this campaign today is quite tantalising.
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RE: Not a supercomputer, and not headed to a PC near yo
by Thom_Holwerda on Fri 9th Jan 2009 23:36
in reply to "Not a supercomputer, and not headed to a PC near you"
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So it's a dual-core ARM processor with a very powerful (and interesting) graphics card that is not really explained in any materials I can find.
There is no graphics card.
It's got a dualcore ARM processor accompanied by 48 programmable processing engines that are capable of switching - in real-time - towards performing specific acceleration tasks.
This processor does all the work you see in the demonstration videos, linked to in the "read more" section.
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So it's a dual-core ARM processor with a very powerful (and interesting) graphics card that is not really explained in any materials I can find. On the plus side the clock speed suggests they've got power under control (max 266MHz), but they don't quote watts and general-purpose FLOP numbers. The address space is only 1GB, which is a questionable decision when the world is moving to 64-bit to get more than 4GB. Some of the media processor materials quote the figure of 100GFlops (for the media unit only?), which isn't supercomputer power, really.
Too little information is given to know whether this is something to be excited about or just another lark.