CES — Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., announced today it is shipping the first two products in its SSDNow line of solid-state drives (SSD) with the SSDNow E Series and SSDNow M Series. Kingston is targeting its SSDs to Fortune 1000 companies and select vertical markets.The SSDNow E Series is specifically designed for the enterprise server environment while the SSDNow M Series is built for the road warrior who demands ultimate performance from a notebook

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At CES 2009 Dirk Meyer gave a Keynote about the future of computing and what AMD is doing to get there. During the Keynote they demonstrated how “Lightstage” technology is used by Hollywood to render special effects. After that, they then showed off their new Dragon platform rendering Will Smith in real time! Check out this you tube video…

Oops! It looks like someone at Asus might have gotten an itchy trigger finger and pushed the button on sending out the press release for the ASUS N81Vp and N51Tp notebooks a couple of days early. The press release came out on Wednesday, January 7th, and it exclaimed, “ASUS Introduces World’s First Notebook Solutions with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4600 Series GPU.” All true and great for Asus, but the only problem is that AMD (ATI’s parent company) had embargoed the information about the new ATI Mobility Radeon

Today at CES, Palm, Inc., announced the Palm Pre smartphone, an upcoming device which features a completely new mobile operating system called webOS. First impressions are powerful things, and I must say this one looks like a winner.

Of course, the proof of the smartphone is in the using, and we won’t be able to take the Pre for a test drive until it’s released sometime in Q2.  On paper, however, the Palm Pre is a jaw-dropper: a TI3 OMAP processor, 8GB of flash storage, EV-DO Rev. A, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 320 x 480 3.1-inch multi-touch display, GPS, 3MP digital camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth… and even a wireless charger featuring Touchstone wireless conductive technology.

As you can see, the new webOS is clearly a giant leap forward for Palm as the Palm OS is somewhere between old and ancient.  We don’t have a great many details on this new OS, but what we do know based on the Palm announcement is that it it relies heavily on Web technologies such as CSS, XHTML and JavaScript.

SDXC SIGNALS NEW GENERATION OF REMOVABLE MEMORY WITH UP TO 2 TERABYTES OF STORAGESDXC Memory Cards Provide Consumers with Massive Storage, Incredible Speed in Familiar, De Facto Standard LAS VEGAS – CES Booth South 3 #31277 – Jan. 7, 2009 – The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, announced today at the 2009 International CES, dramatically improves consumers’ digital lifestyles by providing the portable storage and speed needed to store weeks of high-definition video, years of

iriver has introduced a sleek little networking device called the WAVE-HOME. More than a home networking device, the WAVE-HOME is the ultimate all-in-one solution that provides advanced multimedia, web and phone capabilities a comprehensive communications hub that keeps you totally connected and in control at home, at the office and in your life.

The WAVE-HOME comes with a stylish base station with a 7″ color LCD touch screen and is designed to integrate all of your personal digital content such as music, photos, movies, digital photo frame, hand drawing, Internet and phone services. Music, video, and FM radio can all be enjoyed in pristine sound thanks to the WAVE-HOMEs built-in, high-quality stereo speakers.

Asetek announced today that its liquid cooling solution has been selected by Hewlett Packard for use in its new compact HP Firebird 803 Tower with Voodoo DNA. Asetek technology is helping to cool the entire HP Firebird including the CPU, the chipset, and two MXM cards.

Seen by many as the “little brother” to the full-sized HP Blackbird 002 gaming system, the compact Firebird 803 packs outstanding gaming and graphics performance into a much smaller footprint while providing very low acoustic noise. The HP Firebird 803 uses liquid cooling to chill all major components of the system including the Intel Core 2 Quad Processor, dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S small form factor graphics cards in SLI configuration, and the system logic chipset.

Creative’s Zii has been on our radar screen since December, and we largely ignored it since we figured it was some sort of upcoming mobile media player from Creative.  But today our antennae went up; turns out, Creative’s Zii is a new System On Chip (SoC), a type of processor combining the major elements of a computer system onto a single chip. 

This new Zii ZMS-05 [PDF link] processor is an ARM-based chip with so-called “Stemcell Computing” technology – that is, multiple processor elements, or PEs, which work together to perform tasks in varied configurations on the fly.  Unlike traditional CPUs with pre-defined blocks performing dedicated tasks (video processing, audio processing, etc.), the Zii’s multiple PEs can be configured and reconfigured in real time to allocate as much processing power as is needed for a given task, or to be partially shut down to save power when processing demands are few.  

The utility of this type of processing technology in mobile devices is clear: when demanding tasks are required from a smartphone, like video playback or 3D rendering, more PEs can be dynamically assigned to perform these tasks.  When using basic, less-demanding functions, large portions of the chip can be shut off to save power. 

The first Zii Processor, the ZMS-05, features a dual ARM-926 architecture with multiple PEs for a reported 10GFlops (1GFlop = 10⁹ floating point operations per second) of processing power.  This is loosely comparable to the processing power of an Intel Core 2 Duo L7200 low voltage 1.3GHz processor [Chart].

How well this technology will actually work, of course, remains to be seen.  It’s also unclear how Creative and ZiiLABS plan to move forward with Zii, though we can clearly expect to see future Creative products using this technology.

There are also reports that the companies are working with OEMs in order to bring the SoC to various device types.  When or if a Zii-powered mobile device – or smartphone -will emerge is unclear.

Zii Web Site

ZiiLABS ZMS-05 Press Release

Today, at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, NVIDIA announced 3 new notebook GPUs. The new GeForce 100M Series offer significant performance increases and delivers not only fast frame rates, but support for new advances in PhysX, stereoscopic 3D, and parallel computing. Legit Reviews is on the CES floor and will be reporting on this and more.

Like all NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce 100M Series GPUs deliver more than just fast frame rates with support for new advances in PhysX, stereoscopic 3D, and parallel computing. Through NVIDIA CUDA technology, GeForce 100M Series GPUs support the growing number of applications that use the power in the GPUs 8 to 32 processor cores for more than rendering pixels to the screenfrom GPU-accelerated distributed computing applications, GPU-accelerated game physics and GPU-accelerated video conversion.