VIA HAD A lot of goodies to show off at Computex, from USB to ARM to dual core Nanos. On top of it all, they had several of the buzzworthy ‘$100 tablets’ to show off.
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INTEL DIDN’T HAVE much to announce at Computex as far as new products go, but they did offer a peek into the future. Sandy Bridge, Oak Trail, and Canoe Lake were things bandied about at Dadi Perlmutter’s keynote.
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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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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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I AM NOT sure why the technical world suddenly all came to the same misunderstanding that Intel’s Larrabee is dead, it most assuredly is not. In fact, if you actually read the not-an-anouncement from Intel yesterday, you will see that it simply does not put the knife in, but rather brings a lot of clarity to the chip’s position.
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EVER GONE SKIING on a Southern Island in Vancouver? If not, then the upcoming graphics chips from ATI are for you.
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NO, IT’S NOT April fools, Google really did announce Google TV at Google I/O today and although it might sound utterly daft to incorporate Google search into a TV, the demos shown were quite impressive, when they worked. It’s early days as yet, but it seems like Google has managed to drum up enough support from a wide range of key players to make it a success, a huge success at that.
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THERE’S CURRENTLY SOMETHING of a disagreement going on between the various web browser manufacturers with regards to which video codec is going to become the standard for HTML5 and it seems like we just got another alternative courtesy of Google and its new WebM video codec. The interesting thing here is that apart from Google, both Opera and Netscape are backing an open source option for HTML5, so it looks like the battle for the next gen video codec for online video just warmed up.
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DESPITE SEVERAL RUMOURS suggesting that Acer was set to launch a Google Chrome OS netbook at Computex next month, the company has issued a press release stating that it has no intention of doing so. That doesn’t rule out the possibility of such a device in the future, but Acer doesn’t have any “short-term plans for such a product”.
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MOST PEOPLE SIMPLY don’t understand what Intel is trying to do with their Larrabee chip, and why Intel simply has to keep going with it. That said, it is not, as many speculate, dead, or even wounded, but has had a few setbacks.
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Editors Note: Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the Bumpgate Series with some additional commentary, updates and information. We are reprinting some of the often referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Monday, February 23, 2007 at 03:48AM.
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Editors Note: Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the Bumpgate Series with some additional commentary, updates and information. We are reprinting some of the often referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Monday, July 3, 2006 at 8:56AM.
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Editors Note: Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the Bumpgate Series with some additional commentary, updates and information. We are reprinting some of the often referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 06:06AM.
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended a presentation by Opera held in Taipei of all places. Opera’s CTO, Håkon Wium Lie and Opera’s co-founder, Jon S. Von Tetzchner were on location to talk to the media as well as partners in Taiwan about the future of the web. Well, at least the future of the web the way Opera envisages it. Mr Lie started and ended his presentation with a simple statement “There’s only one web. We must take good care of it, and use it creatively.” which really is something worth thinking about.
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IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia is being it’s normal honest self with respect to the company’s high end Tesla compute cards. Yes, the specs on them dropped again, precipitously, and that is from the already castr^h^h^h^h^h downgraded specs released last fall.
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