You guys must be too young to remember G-Force, the anime. :)
When Nvidia announced their first GeForce product, I thought they might get sued, themselves. But of course, g-force is a term that predates either.
Sony: The Most Impressive Demo at CES
The fact of the matter is that if you're an exhibitor at the show, you rarely have time to actually walk around the show floor and see exhibits other than your own. It's even worse if you're stuck off in a hotel suite somewhere in meetings all day, you don't really get to see the show. So when we meet with most companies we often get asked what they should go see at the show floor if given a free hour or so. CES is a very visual show, and it's very fitting that one of the most interesting things at the show is a display.
Sony was showcasing a handful of prototype OLED displays, with no release date or product in sight, it was still the most impressive looking demo at CES. Sony's arrangement consisted of a number of 11" OLED displays and a single 27". The 11" displays had a native resolution of 1024 x 600 and the 27" was a full 1920 x 1080 display.
Thanks to the use of OLED technology, these displays are extremely thin; the 11" models were around 3mm thick while the 27" display was approximately 10mm thick. The displays were simply looping several high color/contrast video scenes, but with very little motion going on in them. What we could see was absolutely amazing and put every other display at CES to shame, bar none.
Other than a very thin panel, the use of OLEDs meant that you could get some very wide viewing angles when looking at these displays. We tried our best to show it in our pictures but you could almost stand at the very edge of the display and still get a very clear, bright picture.
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g-force versus geforce by artifex on Monday, January 15, 2007
SED *grumble grumble grumble* by Houdani on Friday, January 12, 2007
<--- that's me being grumpy about Toshiba & Canon not displaying the SED TVs at CES'07 due to legal wranglings with Nano-Proprietary. This, of course, is only pushing out their availability that much farther, further closing the window on this tech. Hrmph!
quote:why is that such an issue? what is performance? some numbers you couldn't care less when playing assuming the fps stay above a certain number. you expect performance to drop when enabling other eye candy, but when it comes to realism everyone seems to complain.
Performance of a game with PhysX enabled must not be lower than with it disabled - you should no longer have the problem of better physics but lower performance. This is a big step forward for Ageia, as it is difficult to justify spending money on getting better physics if you end up reducing overall game performance as a trade off.
this makes me think, are ppl buying better video cards for the increased "performance" or for the more immersive experience.
Physics doesn't necessarily have to mean that more polygons are pushed to the screen (such as when things go boom). When this happens, then it taxes the video card more and has a subsequent impact on performance. I think this relationship is understood and accepted.
However, if the physics don't add more polygons but instead cause objects to interact more realistically then we're at the spot where we don't want overall performance to slow down. This is where Ageia needs to flex their strength and not disappoint their audience.
In *software* we already have the ability to have great physics, but at a loss to performance. For Ageia to excel, they necessarily have to remove that hindrance and give us the physics without the performance hit -- otherwise they've provided us with little or no benefit, really.
However, if the physics don't add more polygons but instead cause objects to interact more realistically then we're at the spot where we don't want overall performance to slow down. This is where Ageia needs to flex their strength and not disappoint their audience.
In *software* we already have the ability to have great physics, but at a loss to performance. For Ageia to excel, they necessarily have to remove that hindrance and give us the physics without the performance hit -- otherwise they've provided us with little or no benefit, really.
that makes sense. how much of a performance hit are talking here anyway. and how much of the physics calculations are outsourced to the ppu (and are there any big overheads as a result)
eBook Reader... by LoneWolf15 on Friday, January 12, 2007
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The unit itself is extremely light and honestly is one of the first devices of this type that we could actually see being a reasonable replacement to carrying around tons of books. While the demonstration centered around reading novels, what we’d really like to see is this technology used to store textbooks for schools. Rather than having to carry around multiple books each composed of hundreds of pages, a single e-Ink based Reader like this would be a much better experience.
It would be, if you can make sure this product is extremely difficult to damage.
I've seen way too many students that don't care how they treat something a school gives them --after all, it's (in their minds) not like they bought and paid for it with their own money (the concept that their parents' taxes did is irrelevant in their minds in those cases).
I agree that the concept is brilliant on paper, and it should be perfect for higher education. In the K-12 evnironment though, unless there's a way of accountability that works without making parents upset, or a way of making them durable enough that this is not an issue, this could be an idea that falls one tiny step short of a great finish.
Interesting by bokep on Friday, January 12, 2007
I've been following OLEDs since I first learned about it over half a decade ago. Nice to see it working that well and should be coming out within the next few years.
nice work Anand and co by CSMR on Thursday, January 11, 2007
Great reviews, thanks for keeping the world updated!
OLED sure seems great, but.... by archcommus on Thursday, January 11, 2007
...let's be serious here, LCD is surely getting the job done just fine.
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@anshelsag haha yeah, too late, clicked the wrong button :)
Will be doing power and perf comparison between the old and new configs over the coming weeks. For now, it's bedtime
That was high-end back in 2006 - 8 cores in a 4U box, now we have 12 in a 2U box
Finally carried our old DB server up to the lab: four socket, dual-core Opteron 880 based HP ProLiant DL585 http://t.co/ftyi8BPF
@ozym4ndias @wilshipley @pmod not really, not internal at least. here's a hint: http://t.co/iv6wXn7I :)
@RandomMegaBytes the 512GB drive won't actually update to the latest firmware, but the 128/256GB drives are very quick
@pmod IVB gives you the same memory bandwidth as SNB, likely see DDR3-1600 in mobile
@wilshipley @pmod remember with Ivy Bridge TDPs don't actually go down, in 2013 that will change though...
@wilshipley @pmod The Pro won't go away entirely, but we will see a trend towards thinner notebooks in general.
@PlugPulled this was the last one we did: http://t.co/cwX0YoKG
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