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Top ten highs and lows from CES 2011

Are you peddling iPhone 4 cases? No? Then GTFO!

Despite the many gadget and tech sites who were dancing about half-sober, clamoring over a spectacular CES show fraught with innovation, I’m going to go ahead and take a different stand.  There were intriguing bits to be sure, but overall I left with the opinion that the gadgets in Vegas might as well stay in Vegas this year.  Herein I will break down what I felt were the top ten highlights, and the top ten low points at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, just be warned that these are my opinions and don’t necessarily reflect the views of others at S|A or other sentient life forms in general.
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IDT makes use of DisplayPort AUX channel for touch screen data

Should lead to cheaper and simpler touch screen implementations

ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with touch screens, at least for the manufacturers, is that most touch screen controllers have relied on USB signalling which has required extra wires not just internally between the touch screen and the controller, but also externally between the display and the system in the case of desktops. IDT has found a clever solution to the problem by using the auxiliary channel on the DisplayPort interface to send the touch screen data over, something that should make it a lot easier to implement touch screen technology.
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Asus P8P67 WS Revolution

Review: A P67 workstation motherboard

ASUS’ WS SERIES of motherboards are meant to be appeal to the entry level workstation market and the latest addition is the P8P67 WS Revolution based on Intel’s P67 chipset. As such this board doesn’t quite fall in the consumer category of motherboards from Asus and as a matter of fact, it’s been designed by the server and workstation motherboard team at Asus, rather than the consumer motherboard team.
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Intel’s Patsburg chipset in detail

Several different SKUs expected

AFTER SEVERAL RUMOURS and a lot of speculation we’ve managed to get our hands on what should be close to final specifications of Intel’s Patsburg chipset for its LGA-2011 processors and this is also what the X68 chipset will be based off, although today we’ll be specifically looking at Intel’s solutions for Xeon processors. Intel will launch no less than four different SKUs for Patsburg for its Xeon platform alone, not counting the X68 chipset.
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So what happens to AMD now?

With Dirk out, a world of possibilities are opened up

Talk about a wild start to the week.  Between the Intel/Nvidia settlement, Verizon’s announcement to flog Apple kit, recovering from a week in Vegas at CES, and now Dirk Meyer’s abrupt departure from AMD the tech press has been without sleep for quite some time.  With the industry in such a chaotic state it can be hard to see what the future holds for all these companies, so let us peer into S|A’s patent pending crystal ball to see what’s in store for AMD.
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