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News Roundup: Computex takes over Taiwan
News The Computex trade show in Taiwan has played host to controversies around the latest chips from Intel and AMD, and has seen the introduction of products that could find their way into your PC soon. Monday, 4 June A 1.4GHz Athlon processor and...
[June 11, 2001, 11:33]
Computex is rescheduled for September
News The Computex show, one of the largest annual tech events, was supposed to take place in Taipei on 2-6 June, but the onset in Asia of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or Sars, prompted a number of cancellations and travel warnings.
[May 29, 2003, 10:59]
Future of netbooks revealed at Computex
News Taiwan's Computex conference has been quietly generating some interesting news on the future of netbooks and laptops. Shown at Computex were several Moblin Linux-based netbook prototypes, as well the announcement of Ubuntu Moblin Remix, the next...
[June 4, 2009, 10:11]
Computex in Taipei delayed by Sars
News Computex Taipei was set to take place from June 2 to 6. New dates for Computex Taipei could be confirmed by the end of next month. Computex is not the only large-scale IT event in the city to fall victim to the SARS virus.
[April 30, 2003, 9:32]
Taiwan's Computex set to draw record crowds
News Early signs indicate that Computex Taipei 2003 in September will draw record crowds, much to the relief of organisers who had postponed the June show due to the Sars scare. Computex was meant to take place this month but was rescheduled to 22-26...
[June 20, 2003, 7:55]
Cloners' Mecca Computex to run June 3
News The 1996 Computex pulled close to 48,000 visitors and 714 exhibitors, and the show is firmly ensconced as the epicentre of the clone industry. CETRA, which organises the event, expect 40 per cent of visitors to the 17th Computex to come from overseas.
[December 19, 1996, 11:15]
Intel unveils new chipsets
News Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's sales and marketing group, plans to unveil the chipsets during his keynote address on Tuesday at the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan.
[June 5, 2007, 9:49]
Intel launches CULV chip for ultra-thin notebooks
News The SU2700 consumer ultra-low voltage (CULV) processor, unveiled on Tuesday at the Computex show in Taiwan, is the first of Intel's dual-core CULV chips to fall under the Pentium rather than the Core 2 Duo brand.
[June 2, 2009, 12:02]
AMD: Two chips better than one
News At a press conference at the Computex trade show here, AMD introduced the AMD-760 MP companion chips, which support Double Data Rate (DDR) memory, and multiprocessor-capable versions of the Athlon itself.
[June 5, 2001, 16:08]
SanDisk fine-tunes SSDs for netbooks
News SanDisk unveiled its P2 and S2 parallel ATA solid-state drives (pSSDs) at the Computex trade show in Taiwan on Tuesday. Also at Computex, SanDisk launched its Netbook SDHC memory cards, which come in 8GB and 16GB capacities.
[June 2, 2009, 17:18]
Via announces cheap laptop chip
News Intel on Wednesday released a new round of desktop chips while AMD is expected to unveil a desktop Athlon at Computex. The chip, which will be shown off next week in notebooks at the Computex trade show in Taipei, sports performance roughly in the...
[May 27, 2005, 16:15]
Intel ready for upswing
News Among other things, it forced Computex organisers to delay the show from its usual June time slot. Sources of optimism for Intel include wireless technology, faster processors and spending growth in emerging markets, Jason Chen, Intel's vice...
[September 23, 2003, 11:55]
Nvidia makes play for handhelds
News Also at a press conference at the Computex trade show, Nvidia unveiled the new nForce 3 chipset to support Advanced Micro Devices' new Athlon 64 processor, to be formally introduced on Tuesday. Chipset maker Silicon Integrated Systems also...
[September 23, 2003, 14:50]
AMD readies revved-up chips
News The chipmaker, as expected, will announce its 1.4GHz desktop Athlon processor and a new 950MHz Duron chip next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, sources familiar with AMD's plans said. AMD will rev up Athlon again with the introduction of...
[June 4, 2001, 9:29]
First Tegra-based netbooks and MIDs unveiled
News Twelve Tegra-based products went on display at Computex in Taiwan, according to Nvidia, which said on Tuesday that 20 such devices are "in the works". The manufacturers showing off Tegra-based products at the Computex show in Taiwan include Compal...
[June 2, 2009, 15:56]
Memory standards wage war of words
News The Computex computer show in Taiwan last week became a battleground between two competing formats for next-generation memory, one supported by semiconductor giant Intel, the other a less-expensive open standard.
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
New Eee PC models due on Tuesday
News Asus is set to launch new models of its popular Eee PC subnotebook on Tuesday at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. The Eee 901 — the first iteration of the laptop to include Intel's low-power Atom chipset — will definitely be launched.
[June 2, 2008, 15:11]
AMD readies dual-core Athlon 64
News At the Computex trade show, AMD plans to launch four dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors - the 4800+, the 4600+, the 4400+ and the 4200+. AMD plans to release its dual-core desktop chips in Taiwan on Tuesday, and manufacturers such as HP, Acer and...
[May 31, 2005, 9:15]
Via brings the £100 PC closer
News The company will show off prototypes at the Computex trade show in Taipei next month, and systems are likely to hit the shelves in different markets worldwide by September or October, said Ravi Pradhan, Via's manager for India.
[May 10, 2005, 15:25]
Freescale shows off 'smartbook' prototypes
News The chipmaker Freescale is showing off prototypes of 'smartbook' devices at the Computex show in Taiwan. Smartbooks are Linux-driven mobile internet devices that use chipsets based on Cortex chip designs from ARM, a company best known for its...
[June 2, 2009, 13:42]
