Besides the Froyo update to the Android OS, the other big announcement for the Thursday keynote of the Google IO 2010 is Google TV. From the demo, this is what I learned about it. It’s a software muxer. That is, Google TV itself does not have TV tuners or DVR, nor Google manufactures any of [...]
Recently, Intel announced Intel Atom Z6xx (codename Moorestown) for the smartphone/MID devices. Anandtech has an excellent article on it. This is not the first power-conscious offering from Intel, but it is their first effort into the ever-expanding smartphone (and MID with iPad) market. – ARM the Reigning King of the Smartphone World Currently, the smartphone [...]
Some time ago, I talked about my wish to build an Intel Atom-based HD DVR, and it turns out I am not the only one. Engadget is reporting that Intel just announced CE4100 at IDF2009. It’s an Intel Atom-based media processor that can decode two 1080p streams. It has a brother called CE3100 which has [...]
I have been using two Atom-based systems for a while now. One is an N270-based 8.9″ notebook (or a “netbook”). The other is an N230-based Windows Home Server. Several months ago, nVidia announced ION platform, which is pairing an Intel Atom processor with an nVidia’s mobile GPU for a system that can play back Blu-ray [...]