CES is the major annual show covering consumer electronics, hosted in Las Vegas by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). This year's 2012 International CES runs from 10 - 13 January and, with manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer electronics queuing up to showcase new technology, we bring you the latest electronics news from the event.
CES 2012 News
Friday 13 January 2012
CES: A laptop that follows your eyes
Touch control, voice control, gesture control: alternative interfaces - or those that aren't mice and keyboards - are all the rage at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). With electronics gaining ever more computing power, it's understandable that old inputs don't necessarily apply to new gadgets.
Thursday 12 January 2012
CES: One Laptop Per Child shows off wind-up tablet
The world's poorest children could soon have a tablet of their very own, thanks to One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the organisation which aims to bring low-cost computing to the developing world.
Wednesday 11 January 2012
CES: Dual Cortex-A9s in ST's first Newman TV SoC
Dual ARM Cortex-A9 processors and a Mali GPU are at the heart of ST's most powerful TV and set-top box processor yet.
CES: Sony shows 55in LED-based self-emitting display
Sony has developed a self-emitting display technology, dubbed Crystal LED Display, which it demonstrated in a full HD, 55-inch prototype model at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
CES: Movea shows design for motion-enabled TV remote
Movea, the motion-control device firm, has introduced a motion-enabled TV remote control reference design with Movea's Air MotionIC firmware using InvenSense's MPU-6150.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
CES: Death of the TV remote control
The humble remote control will come under attack at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Flat panels that incorporate motion and voice-recognition controls similar to the Kinect system for Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console are expected to be a big theme at this year's CES.
CES: tool measures audio quality in super flat-panel TVs
Boston-based dbx-tv has announced an audio measurement and calibration tool that it claims can be can be used to optimise sound quality from TVs, regardless of speaker size.
Monday 09 January 2012
CES: Wind River targets faster Android development
Wind River has introduced a series of software modules to help developers jumpstart their Android development. The Android development software includes tested and validated applications and middleware components.
Pre-show
CES: Asset control over IEEE802.15.4 wireless mesh
Treehouse Labs will reveal an asset tracking and control system operating through phones and web-enabled devices using IEEE802.15.4 low-power radio at CES next week.
CES: Xilinx shows high-speed Ethernet network for cars
Xilinx will demonstrate its first FPGA-based Ethernet audio/video bridging (EAVB) network design for carrying high-speed data traffic in automotive vehicles, at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.
CES: Lattice dual image sensor for stereo video
Lattice Semiconductor in collaboration with Aptina will be demonstrating a low-cost, dual image sensor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.
CES: HiWave to demonstrate audio and haptics
HiWave will demonstrate new components and reference designs at CES in Las Vegas next week. The firm, formerly known as NXT and incorporating fabless chip firm Audium, specialises in loudspeakers, audio amplifier chips and touch feedback.
CES: HiWave reveals wireless speakers
Audio technology firm HiWave will reveal a low-power wireless audio amplifier reference design at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in January.
CES 2010 News
Friday 8 January
UK startups shine at CES [UK Tech Startups blog]
This year's CES has seen the emergence of the first products from some of the UK's longest running startups. Plastic Logic and Light Blue Optics, both in Cambridge, have raised substantial sums of money to get to this point of launching, if not shipping, products.
Intel's Otellini talks up expansion of computing beyond PC - CES
Intel's CEO Paul Otellini used his keynote speech at the CES event in Las Vegas to paint a picture of a world where computing is no longer confined to the PC.
Thursday 7 January 2010
TI transmits uncompressed audio over 2.4GHz wireless link - CES
Texas Instruments is to demonstrate a wireless audio technology at CES in Las Vegas this week which it claimed will support CD-quality wireless audio streaming.
Marvell shows first quadcore ARM chip at CES
Marvell has unveiled, for CES, its first quadcore processor based on ARM cores and instruction set.
Pre-show News
Android set-top boxes and media players at CES
Processor firm MIPS Technologies is to demonstrate Android set-top boxes incorporating its cores this week.
3M shows 22-inch multi-touch display at CES
3M has shown one of the largest capacitive touch displays, a 22-inch high-definition, multi-touch LCD display.
ARM scores HDTV design win at CES
Creative Technology's media chip subsidiary, ZiilLABS will show a 1080p HDTV system-on-chip (SoC) device based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor at CES in Las Vegas this week.
Light Touch projector turns flat surface into touch screen - CES
Cambridge-based laser projector firm Light Blue Optics has unveiled its first product, an interactive projector that turns a flat surface into a touch screen.
NXP showcase Cortex-based set-top box chip at CES
NXP Semiconductors and ARM will demonstrate the 847x/8x/9x SoC family, which is based on multiple ARM Cortex processors, at CES in Las Vegas this week.
CES 2008 News
Thursday 10 January 2008
Power saving Philips Eco TV scoops Best in Show award at CES 2008
The power sensitive Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV scoops the Best in Show award, following the announcement of the "Best of CES" Award Winners
Wednesday 9 January 2008
Electronics becoming critical to new car design, says Xilinx
Car manufacturers no longer view electronic systems such as in-car entertainment as add-ons, but as critical elements of vehicle design, says an automotive market specialist at Xilinx.
ST gains from Europe's digital TV market
STMicroelectronics claims to be Europe’s leading supplier of MPEG-2 and H.264 decoder chips for use in integrated digital TV sets (iDTVs)
Innovision pushes Near Field Communications
Innovision, the UK company behind the Topaz tag type format, is using CES 2008 to promote its developments in Near Field Communication (NFC)
Tuesday 8 January 2008
Intel and Freescale power up mobile Internet
Intel couples its low power processors with Freescale Semiconductor's CMOS-based power management technology to address the need for more power efficient mobile Internet devices.
Intel unveils its first 45nm Centrino chips
Intel has used CES 2008 to unveil its first Centrino laptop chips built on 45nm process technology.
Monday 7 January 2008
Mobile projectors come into focus at CES 2008
3M and Himax Technologies announce they are combining proprietary technologies to help commercialise LCOS mobile projectors
AMD puts HD graphics and Blu-ray playback on notebooks
The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series is optimised for AMD’s upcoming notebook platform, code-named Puma.
Imagination's video decode core embraces Chinese AVS standard
Imagination's POWERVR VXD380 multi-standard, HD video decode core is now capable of decoding the new AVS Chinese video standard
Samsung debuts 3D ready flat-panel HDTV
Samsung will unveil its new range of plasma HDTVs at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Friday 4 January 2008
Westinghouse wireless HDTV streams in at CES 2008
Westinghouse is boasting the debut of the world's first fully integrated wireless HDTV at CES 2008. It features Pulse~LINK's CWave UWB Wireless HDMI technology, for lossless wireless streaming of HD content between devices and HDTV displays.
GPS chipsets open up new consumer applications
GPS chipsets are not yet commodity products and technical performance is still the key differentiator, says the chief technical officer of chipset supplier Nemerix.
Motorola delivers advanced multimedia on the go
Motorola is showcasing new mobile TV technology at the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 that will enable users to watch live, on-demand and recorded programs at their leisure
Wolfson cancels noise at CES 2008
Wolfson Microelectronics is demonstrating its latest active noise cancellation technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, courtesy of new in-ear headphones from Audio-Technica.
Thursday 3 January 2008
Motorola preps MPEG-4 set-tops for HD programming
Motorola is using CES 2008 to showcase its first MPEG-4 set-top boxes for the cable industry. The DCX series enables on-demand and interactive digital programming for the home, and is aimed at growing consumer demand for HD programming.
Intel points the way toward wireless HD standard
In the run up to CES 2008 in Las Vegas, a group of firms including Intel have announced the completion of a joint wireless specification for high-definition baseband video transmission
Sandisk launches flash drive with online storage back-up
SanDisk is to start selling in the US its first USB flash drive which offers automatic online backup for files as they are copied to the drive.
CES 2008 - The Event
Featuring manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer technology hardware, you can find the full list of exhibitors for 2008 at the online Exhibitor Directory. The official website of the show can be found at www.cesweb.org
Product categories for the show range from 'Accessories' and 'Audio Hardware & Software' to 'Wi-Fi Technology' and 'Wireless/Mobile Communications'. Check out these Electronics Weekly guides to some of the key technologies
* Wireless - www.electronicsweekly.com/wireless
* WiMAX - www.electronicsweekly.com/wimax
* Bluetooth - www.electronicsweekly.com/bluetooth
* Digital TV - www.electronicsweekly.com/digitaltv
* Mobile Linux - www.electronicsweekly.com/linux
* Microprocessors (x86) - www.electronicsweekly.com/x86micros
* Microprocessors (non x86 - ARM, MIPS, TI) - www.electronicsweekly.com/nonx86micros