Creative ZiiLABS has launched its next-generation ZMS-08 chip that brings flash and HD video to netbooks. The new Zii chip is based on a 1GHz ARM Cortex-8 processor. It supports 1080p HD video playback and Flash acceleration. The chip also supports OpenGL ES 2.0.
The Zii chips were originally built for use in hand held media devices. But the new ZMS-08 chip is built for use in low power and high performance devices such as web tablets, netbooks, home media hubs, video conferencing systems and connected TVs.
The ZMS-08 supports the company’s Plaszma operating system and ZiiLABS’ Google Android version. ZiiLABS has already started offering samples of the chip to some partners and plans to start shipping them early next year. It is still not yet known when netbooks based on this chip will start hitting the market.
The Zii chips were originally built for use in hand held media devices. But the new ZMS-08 chip is built for use in low power and high performance devices such as web tablets, netbooks, home media hubs, video conferencing systems and connected TVs.
The ZMS-08 supports the company’s Plaszma operating system and ZiiLABS’ Google Android version. ZiiLABS has already started offering samples of the chip to some partners and plans to start shipping them early next year. It is still not yet known when netbooks based on this chip will start hitting the market.
Creative has initiated its X-Fi Go! - A USB sound card that assures the power and presentation of its award-winning X-Fi audio expertise. The diminutive and lightweight device ponders less than 20g and utilizes Creative's X-Fi Xtreme reliability audio, designed at providing gamers with ultra-realistic surround sound over headphones. Creative informs us that the world prominent gamer Johnathan ‘Fatality’ Wendell assisted test and endorse the USB-powered sound card, and seeing as he liked it, we're estimating most lesser gamers would, too. The X-Fi Go! Is plug-and-play geared up and all its setting up software is stored on the device's 1GB of built-in memory, so you'll on no account require to be on the lookout for drivers or installation CD’s. The smooth-black terminate is straightforward on the eye, and the X-Fi expertise (counting features such as EAX HD, X-Fi Crystallizer and X-Fi CMSS-3D) will no hesitation be easy on the ear. It's a talented high-end audio explanation for those who necessitate portability, and it's accessible in Europe now at a recommended retail price of €49.99.
A Brazilian developer threatened with legal action by Creative for manufacturing its soundcards work healthier with Vista has had his work restored on the company's website. Daniel Kawakami, well known by the name moniker Daniel.K, modified a variety of Creative's drivers to formulate the company's soundcards work efficiently with Windows Vista. Without his alterations, users argue, Vista machines with Creative soundcards stop working and features fail to labor. Posting forum news on its official website last weekend, Creative threatened Daniel_k with legal action accusing him of infringing its cerebral property. The company eliminated forum posts from the developer enclosing links to his work.