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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 14, 2013

AccidentallyExtraordinary shows off touch controlled headphone concept

CES 2013: One of the few interesting parts of a dull show

A startup called AccidentallyExtraordinary had one of the few new ideas at CES, touch controlled headphones.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 14, 2013

Rasberry Pi running Twonky is a very impressive media box

CES 2013: $35 open platform is almost a set top box

The Twonky trailer at CES has something I wasn’t expecting, their server running on a Raspberry Pi.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 11, 2013

Rambus introduces a light bulb

CES 2013: No, we are not joking, they designed an LED light bulb

The product you have all been waiting for has finally arrived, the new Rambus light bulb!
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 10, 2013

The SuperMicro mini-ITX rig you have been waiting for is here!

CES 2013: The hot new entrant in the digital signage space comes in black

Two new parts from SuperMicro at CES, a mini-ITX case and a board to go with it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 10, 2013

Global Foundries shows off 20nm and 14nm wafers

CES 2013: Small things in unlikely places

Two pictures of wafers to kick off the day, a Global Foundries 20nm wafer, and a 14nm wafer.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 9, 2013

Pentax has two new consumer cameras in 101 colors

CES 2013: 100 choices for one model, 1 for the other

Pentax was showing off two new cameras at CES, a mid-range consumer part and a colorful SLR.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 9, 2013

AMD shows off Kabini and Hondo silicon

CES 2013: Just the bare chips pictured

AMD is showing off Kabini and Hondo systems at CES this week, and if you ask really nicely, they will let you play with the lidless chips themselves.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 8, 2013

Kingston shows off a 1TB USB flash stick

CES 2013: We are rapidly approaching

At CES, Kingston was showing off two new memory sticks and an update to their Wi-Drive device.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 8, 2013

Lilliputian Systems makes a fuel cell on silicon wafers

CES 2013: Lots of power on a chip to power other chips

Lilliputian Systems was showing off their fuel cell power unit at CES, and the details are very interesting indeed.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 8, 2013

AMD’s CES 2013 Press Conference

Richland, Kabini, and Temash…

The keynotes that we’ve seen so far at CES have been pretty lame. Our own Leo Yim characterized last nights Nvidia press conference as a, “heynote”.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 7, 2013

Venom’s Dataguard is a cell phone VPN

CES 2013: IPSEC tunnels for the average teen

Venom, makers of gaming accessories, have a new VPN for cell phones called Dataguard.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 7, 2013
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Power your laptop with a USB cable

USB-IF shows off working Power Delivery silicon.

One of the few cool things so far at the pre-CES shows has been from the USB-IF, functional USB-PD silicon.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 4, 2013

AMD’s HD8000 might not make Q1

Sea Islands gets pushed out a little for non-technical reasons

Time for a small GPU update early in the new year, this time AMD, specifically Sea Islands, is the subject.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 2, 2013

Apple’s silicon design capabilities increase

The last remaining hole is now plugged

Apple has been upping the ante on their silicon design capabilities faster than anyone anticipated, with impressive results.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 2, 2013
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XBox Next/720 silicon production day arrives

Exclusive: Consoles this year mean the chips went in

Remember when SemiAccurate exclusively brought you the news about the XBox Next/720’s main chip taping out?
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