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Will Creative's Zii conquer the world?

John Chan | Dec 04, 2009

Can Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo's vision cover the world?
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Those following our coverage of the Zii Summit will notice that it was held in Shenzhen, China. It would probably have gotten more press coverage had it been conducted in locations like Shanghai and Beijing, but as we found out, that's not the point. Businessmen who own factories making high-tech consumer products are found in Shenzhen and they are the ones Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo wants to engage.

Almost every tech product you own is made in China. Factories there manufacture some of the best devices, but the credit goes back to the foreign companies. Rightly so-- Nokia designs products in Finland, Apple in California, Olympus in Japan, the list goes on. Mainland manufacturers are merely production lines for these companies which are not able to make devices cheaply in their own countries due to high labor costs.

Sim's Chinese tagline for the Zii Summit contains a part which roughly translates to "changing Earth, covering the world". This is meant to give the idea that the Zii platform can enable these Chinese businesses to change their status as factories for big Western corporations, to tech companies known for their own products.
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Apple pulls the plug on Psystar's Mac clones

Erica Ogg | Dec 03, 2009

Psystar's Mac clones are unavailable after Tuesday's settlement with Apple.
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As part of Psystar's partial settlement with Apple, all models of the company's Open Computer featuring preinstalled Mac OS have been removed from its Web site.

A quick visit to Psystar.com recently reveals all five products the Mac clone maker had been selling since 2008 are suddenly "out of stock." It follows Tuesday's partial settlement, in which the Florida-based Psystar agreed to pay US$2.65 million to Apple for copyright infringement, in exchange for Apple dropping the other claims of trademark infringement and unfair competition.
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Intel debuts 48-core processor that could reshape how PCs are built

Stephen Shankland | Dec 03, 2009

Each node on the SCC chip includes two x86 cores with its own memory cache. (Credit: Intel)

Pushing several steps farther in the multicore direction, Intel on Wednesday demonstrated a fully programmable 48-core processor it thinks will pave the way for massive data computers powerful enough to do more of what humans can.

The 1.3-billion transistor processor, called Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is successor generation to the 80-core "Polaris" processor that Intel's Tera-scale research project produced in 2007. Unlike that precursor, though, the second-generation model is able to run the standard software of Intel's x86 chips such as its Pentium and Core models.
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Intel unveils 48-core chip, paves way for multicore insanity

Damian Koh | Dec 03, 2009

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The multicore madness continues. And if Intel has its way, computers in the future could possibly mimic human behavior, bringing the bits and bytes from virtual reality into the physical world. When that happens, you simply need to think to process computer commands, bringing laziness to epic levels. You could also try on new clothes or learn how to dance without even stepping away from the PC monitor.
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Creative demos Zii-based videoconferencing

John Chan | Dec 02, 2009

A model with the Project Lionfish 003 tablet.
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SHENZHEN, China--Creative demonstrated the versatility of its Zii platform during its Zii Summit with different concept hardware and software products. These included various videoconferencing tools aside from yesterday's announcement of the Trinity smartphone platform.

When the Singapore-based company first announced its Zii platform, it was presented as a scalable computer that can be used to create a supercomputer efficiently. Thereafter, Creative showed off the Zii Egg, a portable media player very different from that initial idea as it now targets the consumer market. The Trinity concept smartphone is an extension of the Egg, adding cellular capabilities to the touchscreen media player.

The Trinity may be the highlight of the ongoing conference, but Creative's other concepts are worth mentioning, too. The device codenamed Project Turtle 002 is a portable videoconferencing camera with a fisheye lens so it's able to give an overview of the participants around a meeting table. Using the accompanying Zii Meet conferencing software, someone on the other end of the call can get a split-screen view and zoom in on specific participants, useful if you are addressing one person in a group.
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