Computex 2011
Along with ECS, ASRock invited me to tour their HQ as well. ECS and ASRock are two distinctly different companies from the inside, compared to what people may think from the outside – there are plenty of comparisons to be made. For a start, where ECS has a 20 floor building all to itself in the middle of Taipei, ASRock have two floors of a relatively smaller building on the outskirts.
Computex 2011: Some Time with Promise's Thunderbolt Devices
Yesterday Intel told us that Ivy Bridge would feature both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt on its Ivy Bridge platform (USB 3.0 will be integrated into the chipset, Thunderbolt...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: Antec Implements Seagate GoFlex Standard
At this year's CES Seagate announced its intentions to open the GoFlex connector standard, enabling devices and other drivemakers to build products around its GoFlex removable drive standard. We've...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: AMD Announces Bobcat-based Z Series APUs for Tablet Market
While AMD does not have a true SoC to combat the likes of Intel, NVIDIA, and ARM, this doesn’t mean they’re completely ignoring the market for the type of...
8 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: Antec's Solo II for $119
Antec also showed us its Solo II case at the show. A pretty standard looking chassis the Solo II is designed to be a good balance of functionality and...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: This is the Antec P280
Antec was eager to share with us its upcoming P280 chassis. The case we were shown is still a prototype but it's going to be Antec's flagship when it...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Meet the New 5.25" Optical Drive Standard: Slimmer, Slot-loading
I was walking around the show floor today and caught a glimpse of Antec's Solo II chassis with a slightly different optical drive bay. It turns out that there's a...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
More on Intel's Thin Mini-ITX Standard
I stopped by Intel's booth at Computex to grab a few shots of the small but potent Thin Mini-ITX ecosystem. If you read our coverage yesterday you'll remember that...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: AMD Bulldozer, Llano, Trinity, & New VISION Branding
AMD’s Computex 2011 conference just wrapped up. Computex is not AMD’s traditional grounds for major new announcements – they’d rather have their own events for that – but alongside...
26 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: Battle of the 600W GPUs
It wouldn’t be a trade show without a little bit of extreme thinking, to grab some headlines and show the punters how creative their engineers are. As part...
13 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: MSI's X79 and Llano Motherboards
By now you know that Ivy Bridge (due out in March - April of 2012) will be backwards compatible with some 6-series motherboards. The CPU itself has a PCIe...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: MSI's Brazos, Cedar Trail and Tegra 2 Tablets
I met with MSI yesterday, a company that has been going through a bit of an identity crisis as of late. ASUS is the only motherboard manufacturer that...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: Diskeeper ExpressCache Provides an Alternative to SSD Caching for OEMs
As we found out in our Z68 review, Intel's SRT (SSD Caching) is basically a software tool baked into Intel's RST driver - there's no real hardware requirement in...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
A Quick Look at a 22nm Ivy Bridge Wafer
Just before a couple of key Ivy Bridge disclosures, Mooly Eden held up a wafer of 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs. Presumably these are quad-core versions with 16 EUs, the...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
The New Indilinx Everest SSD
OCZ acquired Indilinx not too long ago and today we're seeing the first new controller from the company since 2009. OCZ calls it the Everest Platform, and it's an...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid, HDD & SSD on PCIe Card
OCZ is feeling quite experimental these days as it has announced a hybrid RevoDrive. Take the new RevoDrive 3 and use it as a cache in front of a...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: OCZ Z-Drive R4 88, Eight SF-2281 Controllers in RAID-0
OCZ's consumer accessible PCIe SSD line is the RevoDrive, but if you're an enterprise customer and want a custom configuration OCZ will build you a Z-Drive. To show you...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: OCZ's RevoDrive 3 & RevoDrive 3 X2, Now With TRIM
There's a new PCIe SSD in town: the RevoDrive 3. Armed with two SF-2281 controllers and anywhere from 128 - 256GB of NAND (120/240GB capacities), the RevoDrive 3 is...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: Up Close with ASUS UX Series with SanDisk's U100 SSD
I met with SanDisk earlier today and to my surprise they had an ASUS UX Ultrabook in their meeting room. It turns out that at least one model in...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: Intel Mentions Haswell Will Support "Multiple OSes", But Why?
I hate that I didn't pull my camera out quickly enough to catch this slide, but Intel's Mooly Eden just mentioned an interesting feature of Haswell. He stated that...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Ivy Bridge: A Tick+ With Configurable TDP
With Turbo boost and power gating we took a step towards configurable CPUs. It didn't matter whether you needed one core or four, with power gating and turbo you...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
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