Creative Zii - CES 2009

[kurthewett]

what happened to the zii egg?

[r0galik]

In fact i should be teraflops

[monstercameron]

tahts flipping impossible!

[ls411]

What I don't understand is how it competes with gpgpu. An AMD 4870x2 can do 1 teraflop and is smaller (in length and width at least) than an A4 piece of paper.GPU's can also be stacked-up and scaled like Zii too...

[CaptainAshra]

the main point i think is that the Zii chip is supposed to use much less power consumption to do the same tasks and can adapt more easily to different tasks.

[noergelstein]

If the blinking Christmastree decoration at the end are each a Zii chip, then the low power consumption ist definitely demonstrated by the lack of a heatsink.

[heoquayhp]

put it in a laptop, where heavy graphic processing is not needed. Then u get a compact super fast computer with minimum power consumption, less heat too, sweet

[gsparx25]

Or you put several in a laptop and still get heavy graphics processing, and low power/heat.

[Chick6517]

That video was cute. It&TBPSQUOs nice to see these kinds of videos once in a while. Lol

[CRAKIZGOOD]

heh a after creative's Zii chip

via is gona die a slow horrible death

[ptireland]

I'm betting the first OS that will be ported to it will be Linux. Then they can add their own interface kind of like Apple did with OSX when they hired Steve Jobs back.

Linux would really lend itself well to the huge clusters they are talking about.

[Kilarezan]

bravo. If you read about the chip, you would know, that the sdk consists of a linux kernel 2.6

[merethan]

A GFlops on a A4-size paper. Sounds like petty cool stuff.

I'm quite stunned.

[merethan]

My bad, a Gflop was a bit too much :P

I ment 2 TFlops ;)

Still very, very impressive.

[4fterDawn]

Erm... Giga is 1000 times less than Tera...

[merethan]

My bad again... perhaps the GFlop on a A4-size paper was right. 2 TFlops was a blade.

I'm a little confused now. Perhaps "a bloody lot" will do?

[TheBlackxSmith]

Motherfuck! amazing, it did change computing, and if you watch the video above this, you will be more amazed!