One of the more esoteric showcasing at Computex was from ECS. In recent chipset and processor launches more and more motherboard companies are jumping on the bandwagon for a range of gming oriented motherboards (either part of the main motherboard stack or separate). ECS has sought the services of a branding agency and developed their Z87 range under the heading of GANK. The word GANK, which I had no idea what it meant, is from the realm of MMORPGs, meaning ‘gang kill’. Under this range ECS will launch a few motherboards building on the Golden and Extreme ranges of the last generation. The top board of the range will be the Z87H4-A3X Extreme, which offers an x8/x4/x4 + x4 PCIe layout for...
Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Day 1: New Concept PCs
The first day of IDF kicked off with much more than we expected out of Craig Barrett's keynote speech. Find out what the face of PCs in 2004...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/18/2003Comdex 2002 Wrapup - AMD, NVIDIA & Transmeta
We had a long discussion with AMD about Athlon 64 and Opteron, we also saw Personal Cinema 2 and the first Ti 4800 card and we finished the show...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/23/2002Comdex 2002 - Day 2: Intel's CPU Roadmap & Hammer Performance
We got confirmation on our 800MHz FSB information, VIA's KT400A and even got to spend some time with a live 1.4GHz Athlon 64 system - all in the first...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2002Comdex 2002 Motherboard Coverage - Part I
Yesterday marked the first day of our motherboard coverage at Comdex 2002. Most of the motherboard makers we visited seem to be big on Granite Bay (E7205) and SiS...
0 by Evan Lieb on 11/19/2002Comdex 2002 - Day 1: Working Springdale & Hammer Samples
The first day of Comdex comes to a close and we've already seen quite a bit. Everything from a 1.4GHz Hammer to a fully working Springdale board and...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/18/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Hyper-Threading & Memory Roadmap
We sat down with Intel's CTO, Pat Gelsinger and picked his brain about Hyper-Threading for this final piece in our coverage of the Fall 2002 Intel Developer Forum. ...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 2: Live at the Technology Showcase
We spent some time in the Technology Showcase today and got some more information on Banias, PCI Express and Intel's two new PC form factors.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 – Day 2: More on Hyper-Threading
We sat down with Bill Siu of Intel and got a chance to pick his brain about Hyper-Threading. He revealed a very interesting point about the performance of...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 2: Banias Galore
Intel revealed quite a bit about their new mobile processor - Banias. Read on to find out exactly what's behind this 77 million transistor CPU.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 1: An end to a start
Our motherboard editor was on the floor of the IDF Technology Showcase today and managed to grab some pictures of DDR-II and PCI Express slots in addition to a...
0 by Evan Lieb on 9/10/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 1: May the show begin
We're half-way through the first day of the fall Intel Developer Forum and already have quite a bit to report. Although Intel's opening keynote was not too entertaining, Microsoft...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2002Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Preview
Before this year's Fall Intel Developer Forum even started we've got some interesting things to report. Get ready because your next CPU could run off of two voltages...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2002Computex 2002 Day 3: More ATI, VIA & PaceBlade
Day 3 of Computex 2002. Today we focus mainly on ATI while discussing VIA and PaceBlade as well.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2002Computex 2002 Day 2: ATI's R300, nForce2 & XScale PDAs
Today was an even more interesting day as we got the first demo of ATI's R300 chip. We also ran into a handful of nForce2 based motherboards and...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2002Computex 2002 Day 1 - Part II: KT400, Dual Channel DDR & More
The first day of Computex 2002 has come to an end and while we get a few hours of sleep on the other side of the world we've got...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2002Computex 2002 Day 1 - Hammer & Opteron Galore
We've only been at Computex for a couple of hours but there is already quite a bit to talk about. We've already seen every single Hammer chipset that...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2002CeBIT 2002 Part 2 - CPUs, Cooling, Motherboards, & Video
Tillmann wrapped up his coverage of this year's CeBIT conference with a lot of interesting material. Have a look at AMD's "modified" Hammer reference board, some 760MPX and...
0 by Tillmann Steinbrecher on 3/20/2002CeBIT 2002 Part 1 - A/V Devices & More
Tillmann Steinbrecher, our german correspondant, was in Hannover for this year's CeBIT conference. See all that he saw including PowerVR's 3D chip for PDAs.
0 by Tillmann Steinbrecher on 3/18/2002Intel Developer Forum Spring 2002 - Wrap Up
To conclude our coverage of the Spring '02 IDF we wrote a bit about Pat Gelsinger's keynote on Thursday. Find out what the next thing to make it...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/5/2002Intel Developer Forum Spring 2002 - Day 4
AMD and Intel talk CPUs, Serial ATA II is introduced and a number of other technologies are discussed. Did we mention a 800MHz FSB?
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/28/2002