My brain hurts.
What I think would be neat is to have a chip in a football so the ref’s would know where the ball is - like crossing the goal line or where the first down is or when it crosses the foul line ... stuff like that ....
FYI....lots of new stuff coming!
NEWS - Marvell claims first quad-core ARM processor
NOTE:
ARM is the architecture used in most cellphones.
With CES over, can tablet PCs live up to all the hype?
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Jan. 11, 2010, 2:24 p.m. EST
Technology-industry executive showed off their newest table wares to varying degrees of excitement.
A report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on new family-friendly technology. Video courtesy of Fox Business Network.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer got a ho-hum reaction as he showed off a new H-P Slate tablet, while executives from Dell Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!dell/quotes/nls/dell (DELL 14.80, -0.05, -0.34%) gave a look at what they called a tablet-concept device that features with a 5-inch screen.
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. /quotes/comstock/15*!nvda/quotes/nls/nvda (NVDA 18.22, -0.33, -1.78%) boasted of the 500 engineers it took to design that company's new Tegra microchip, which Nvidia claims will revolutionize the capabilities of tablet devices.
Then there was Apple Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!aapl/quotes/nls/aapl (AAPL 209.42, -2.56, -1.21%) -- or rather, there wasn't Apple, which didn't attend CES but is expected to introduce a tablet Mac of its own, as soon as the end of the month.
Indeed, Apple's shadow led some analysts to assert that no one would even be talking about tablets were it not for the anticipation over what the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has planned.
The popularity and success of the iPhone in launching a new wave of smartphones is considered a prime example of why rivals need to get into the tablet market before Apple comes out with a device that could have consumers thinking any other tablet is second-best. See story on how company is working on a tablet.
"You can talk about new tablets and applications, but it's still not enough to make anyone forget Apple," said David Daoud, analyst with IDC.
Another question facing any company looking to get into the tablet-PC market is whether the hype coming out of CES will amount to acceptance among consumers and translate into real sales. It's an issue that has dogged tablet PCs for years.