CES Pre-Show Sneak Peek
CES Pre-Show Sneak Peek
We've got a couple of editors out in Las Vegas currently at the whirlwind that is the Consumer Electronics Show (myself included), and saw some cool stuff at an event this evening that we thought many of you would like to check out. There are a few big announcements coming over the next couple of days that we'll be talking about in due time, and the show technically doesn't start until tomorrow, but that didn't stop some major players from showcasing their wares a bit early...
NVIDIA was showing off a few things, including its Ion platform, which couples an NVIDIA chipset and IGP to Intel's Atom processor. The tiny Ion reference platform was on display running an HD video clip of the Dark Knight with perfect playback quality. Although this platform doesn't have Intel's blessing at the moment, we hope it somehow takes off--Ion would make for a killer media extender. NVIDIA was also showing off their GeForce 3D Vision stereoscopic shutter glasses, as was Viewsonic, which has some new 120Hz capable LCD displays on tap that work with the glasses. Check back here in the morning for a more on GeForce 3D Vision.
A quick stop by the RAMBUS display revealed a few interesting PCBs. Two of the images above are of the first couple of revisions of Sony's Playstation 3 motherboard, which utilize RAMBUS memory technology. The other image is of a new TI projector that also features some RAMBUS tech.