THE PROGRAM FOR Hot Chips 21 was just released, and it is, umm, hot. The show will have speakers from Chuck Moore to Jen-Hsun Huang, and will cover chips from Atom to Power 7.
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PROBABLY THE SINGLE most important thing to come from Computex is not a product, but the promise of a new standard. The best idea of the show award goes to Intel for kick starting the idea of a standard PC in monitor form factor.
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WHEN YOU KNOW what is going on, it makes sorting rumors from truth a lot easier. One of the biggest tricks has leaked almost entirely out, so lets give you the rundown on the latest ATI code names.
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THE BIRDS IN Taipei are singing again, and like the tree frogs, they usually have something to say. This time, the tune is about DAAMIT wanting partners to have more brands.
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DOLBY WAS AT Computex showing off technologies that make PCs sound better. In this case, the two main umbrellas are Dolby Home Theater V3 and Dolby Advanced Audio.
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YOU FIND THE most interesting things when you look closely at show photographs, in this case, it is a second new ATI chipset. This one is called the SR5650, and it sits on a single socket Tyan S8005 board.
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SANDISK HAS UPPED the ante on their newest generation of SSDs, not just faster, but also smarter. Some of this is also trickling down to their lines of netbook SSDs as well.
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TYAN IS SHIFTING gears, hard, both on the product side of things and how they sell them. The new products are a line called Yellow River (YR), and they will never be sold retail.
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WHEN YOU THINK about the best motherboard, what usually pops to mind is big, expensive, and flashy, usually from a big company too. Albatron once again thinks way outside the box, and wins the best motherboard of Computex for something that does not even have a name yet.
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THERE ARE ALWAYS a few items at any show that stand out and deserve more attention than they get. With that, SemiAccurate brings you the Best of Computex series, starting with the Gigabyte MIB.
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THERE HAVE BEEN a lot of rumors floating around about some near future ATI products. Lets quash them as quickly as possible so you can get back to avoiding work in other less productive ways.
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COOLERMASTER WAS AWASH in updated items, but they also had a few new categories to branch out into as well. Among the PSUs and cases that you know so well were some gems like a new gaming mouse.
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AMI JUST MADE port 80 cards a thing of the past by introducing their new AMIDebug Rx device. Now you can debug your BIOS over USB.
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LIFE IS A DOUBLE edged sword, when you find something cool and take pics of it, like the upcoming OCZ 1TB SSD, your pictures inevitably disappear. The up side is that it is easy enough to describe, and there are other things from the company that didn’t sneak off.
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IF YOU KNOW where to look, the new ATI 8xx series chipset can be found at Computex. The trick, look to the servers.
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