WE HAVE IT on very good authority; in fact we heard it from the horse’s mouth so to say, that EVGA has run into a bit of a problem, as its motherboard team has decided to depart. This is not good news when you’re a company that design your own motherboards, especially when you consider how few motherboard design companies that are left standing today.
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AMD SHOWED OFF working Fusion silicon at Computex today. Here is some raw video of the live demo at the AMD press conference.
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WHAT DO YOU get if you supply 1500W to a CPU, encrypt everything with removable keys, and control the whole thing with your phone? That is easy, the new Gigabyte motherboards.
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SINCE LAST COMPUTEX, Corsair has become a much more serious player in the case market and its latest addition, the Graphite series 600T, should really give the established players a good run for their money. Also on show was a new range of power supplies, some new CPU coolers and Corsair’s new AirFlow Pro memory cooling solution with activity LEDs.
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A YEAR AGO, AMD showed off the first Evergreen part, it was a Juniper wafer and a card behind the scenes. Tomorrow morning, Taiwan time, a few birds told us that AMD will be showing off Fusion silicon.
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MINI-ITX IS WITHOUT a doubt a hugely popular form factor these days and we spotted three new boards at the Asus booth. Two of them have an Atom processor, one uses ION 2 for graphics and the third is based on AMD’s 880G chipset. All have some rather unique features and selling points, depending on your needs.
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAD a press conference today that not only announced a two huge fab expansions, but also explained why they chose the term global. ATIC, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi is thinking long term, and that is what you need in the foundry business.
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COMPUTEX IS ALWAYS full of surprises, but Asus’s new Immensity motherboard which is part of its R.O.G. series of boards is something that we didn’t expect to see. It’s based on Intel’s X58 chipset and has all the usual trimmings you’d expect on such a board, with two unusual additions – Lucid’s Hydra and an onboard ATI GPU with dedicated graphics memory.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the GTX480M notebooks are floating, just like we said at CeBIT, and at Computex, they are the highlight of the Clevo booth. While the performance may not impress many enthusiasts, several of their other designs just might.
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USUALLY AT COMPUTEX companies hold a press release to announce new products. This year Nvidia did announce a lot of things, but we couldn’t quite figure out what was new and none of what was announced appeared to be Nvidia products, although the announcements did somehow seem to involve Nvidia and its products.
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EVERY ONCE IN a while comes a magical moment when a lot of disparate things collide in the presence of a video camera. That, and a shocking lack of alcohol, lead to the first SemiAccurate video, an entry in AMD’s “What Would You Do With 48 Cores?” contest.
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SEMIACCURATE MANAGED TO snap a few pics of six new Gigabyte mobos, from fire-breathing Intel X58s and AMD 890FXs to diminutive micro-ATX systems. There is a lot to like in this new round of motherboards.
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ALTHOUGH COMPUTEX DOESN’T start officially until tomorrow, we ran past Gigabyte’s booth to get some more details on the convertible M1125 notebook. It will launch with Core i5 UM processors, although we don’t know which CPU model it’ll have, as the M1125 isn’t set to launch until August.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the cracks are starting to spread at Nvidia PR, Hardware Secrets just joined the list of those honest enough to get banned by the company. The real question is how does Nvidia PR decide to blacklist a company? Since you asked, we dug up their internal memos on such things.
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THE DAYS BEFORE Computex don’t tend to be as hectic as they’ve been this year, but it might have to do something with the local companies wanting as much attention as possible ahead of the show, as the past year hasn’t exactly been great for most of them. Gigabyte’s notebook division has unveiled a few details on its new 11.6-inch convertible notebook that will be launched at the show, alongside the first picture of the M1125.
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