Zii unveils the Zii Egg

In the last months, Zii gained a lot of interest for their StemCell computing announcement. Basically, the concept of the ZMS-05 chip sounds like a FPGA, combined with some sort of dynamic frequency scaling. Which is still not a good enough explanation, since they don't need to change frequency (just switching parts of the processor "off") and the reprogramming of the chip takes milliseconds, not seconds.

Since this all sounds to good to be true, most comments on these claims are quite reserved.

Today, Zii introduced the Zii Egg.

I'm quite sold: A handheld offering full HD resolution to a TV? How great is that? There are still a lot of questions open, one of them is a real world check on their energy efficiency claims.

If half of their claims are true, I'm quite convinced that this will change the whole chip industry. Not only for handhelds, but all kinds of mobile equipment, desktop computers and servers. Having a ultra scalable architecture, able to hard-wire tasks on the fly and just switch off if there's nothing to do still sounds to good to be true.

Let's see how this works out. If you see Intel offering a takeover or Microsoft starting to port Windows to the ZMS-O5, the claims might be true.