IT IS SO PRETTY we hardly have any words for it. Notice the business card being held behind the screen and how much is visible along with the bright colors.

ZiiLABS HAS YET to get a single retail product based on its StemCell Computing Arrays or System on a Chip (SoC) that most other companies refer to them as. This doesn’t seem to have weakened the company’s resolve as the Creative Labs spinoff has announced a new platform for its 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 based ZMS-08 SoC. The SiVO digital home platform is set to offer 1080p video playback at “Blu-ray quality with bit-rates of up to 40Mbps”.

PEOPLE WATCHING TSMC'S process development might have noticed a radical change in messaging a few months ago. The foundry not only changed its high-K/metal gate (HKMG) strategy, but it also pulled in the timetables at the same time.

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BIRDIES CHIRPING IN the warm Cambridge sunshine just told SemiAccurate that ARM is about to launch the new Cortex A5 core. The smallest member of the A series will likely debut at ARM's Techcon3 next week.

NVIDIA IS KILLING the GTX260, GTX275, and GTX285 with the GTX295 almost assured to follow as it abandons the high and mid range graphics card market. Due to a massive series of engineering failures, nearly all of the company's product line is financially under water, and mismanagement seems to be killing the company.

INTEL'S LAST KEYNOTE of IDF focused on TVs and how PCs could integrate with them. All it managed to do is convince me that the future is darker than I had feared, the wrong forces are in control, and Intel doesn't understand this market.

CRESTATECH IS SHOWING one of the most misunderstood devices in recent memory at IDF, a software defined radio. It went from pre-production silicon at CES to OEM shipments in a very short time.

WORD HAS REACHED our tender ears that Larrabee, the upcoming Intel GPU, will not be quite as generalist as they claim. The fixed function parts will be two HD decoders.

INTEL DROPPED A bombshell on the market today with a little bullet point and a few carefully chosen words. Opening up Atom to third parties to interface with willy-nilly went from impossible to product in the space of one slide.

PROBABLY THE SINGLE most important thing to come from Computex is not a product, but the promise of a new standard. The best idea of the show award goes to Intel for kick starting the idea of a standard PC in monitor form factor.

INTEL JUST DROPPED a bombshell on the embedded world, they bought Wind River Systems today. This means Intel now owns one of the better embedded Linux development platforms and VxWorks as well.

INTEL CANMORE TV chips were announced a long time ago, but given their embedded nature, they are hard to find in the wild. Today, Gigabyte changed that with the introduction of the GN-MD300L.