A few day ago, I posted something on Zii - Stem Cell Computing. Today at CES, Creative has unveil Zii. It is not any sound blaster card. It is one of the most important products of Creative.
Zii, or Zen 2nd generation in short, is a multi-function processor, and has 10GFlops of processing power.. It has 48 programmable processor element. All the programmable processor element can be switch off when not in use and activate back when in used, saving lots of power in the prcoessing.
Want to know more, read the article below
and the offical slides
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Interesting, the future for hand-held devices may evolve with this. I think they timed it just nice with the global recession.
can the SP inforcomm club tell me what exactly the zii is in layman's term? And how does it differ from Sony's Cell?
It's a processing unit which can be used in MP3s, PVPs, PSP-like devices, except the cores can be programmed on-demand, not fixed like what we have now. It's not a x86/x64 structure now, so it cannot be used for desktop comupters yet.
what's a x86/x64 structure? If its not x86/x64, then what is it?
Anyway, x86 naming is due to the first few computer. IBM 8086. Since our 32bit operating still use the same architecture, so it is name x86.
For x64, it is due to the newer 64bit technology on the cpu.