News: Creative Xi-Fi launched!

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Creative launched their new Audio solution, the Xi-Fi chip today!

This all-new patent pending DSP architecture has 4 hardware threads, which why it is named the "Quartet" DSP

so its pretty much a quad core spu? :o

made in 130nm process
51.1M transistors
400Mhz clockspeed
10.340 MIPS theoretical overall processing power (equivalent to a P4 3.4Ghz)

creative claims it can improve the sound quality of all your mp3s and other encoded audio files by reconstructing how they probably sounded before they were encoded. nice feature! reminds me of de-interlacing on video



read all about Creatives Xi-Fi on Creatives Site
theres a nice discussion about Xi-Fi here
and dont forget to check out this sweet launch video!
according to vr-zone it will be available in august already