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Originally Posted by Radar
It's already in the market. There are several companies already using the Zii chip. If you go to CES, you're in the market.
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Sometimes. Generally, major companies with existing products do not demonstrate in shows (ie CES) until ready for production. Small upstarts, instead, will use CES to test the market or maybe encourage entrepreneurial investors. I am currently thinking of a Microsoft product involving turtles (name and purpose long forgotten) that was to be some kind leadership product. It got unveiled. Then it completely disappeared. Different companies unveil for different purposes.
GM has so few new products that GM unveiled their Volt in shows how many years before it will ever be on the market? It is rather difficult to know (from what I have seen) if that CPU is still in prototype or Alpha testing. I seriously doubt there will be a retail product this year. They are a new company. So they need the exposure long before actually selling product.
Sigma Designs once unveiled a revolutionary camera many years ago. Good luck finding that camera in the marketplace. They unveiled. Could never find it except in ‘new product’ publications.
Meanwhile, what new software makes it possible to program? That too has been a complication for every revolutionary CPU products including the original CMOS CPU sold by RCA. No complete solution means no retail sales. Its difficult to predict any kind of sucess from a produt that, if it does as prmoted, may be wildly successful.