Computex 2004 Early Bird Coverage: NV45 in the Flesh, New Chipsets, BTX Boards and more...
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 31, 2004 12:31 PM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
VIA Demos QBM
About a year and a half since we first wrote about it, VIA was finally demoing Quad Band Memory on a P4 platform at their booth. You'll want to read our tech article on QBM to understand more of how it works, but basically it offers twice the bandwidth of DDR using a phase shift of the clock signal to effectively achieve two DDR transfers per "clock."
We weren't able to catch the demo in action, but we will hopefully be reporting more on this later during the show.
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JGF - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
Wheee! Love the early stuff but really the meat and potatoes of this computex, at least for me, is going to be the new amd processers and and amd info regarding PCI-E and AMD64 chipsets.Da3dalus - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
That K8 Combo board is quite interesting. If you'd have a board like that with support for either Socket 939 or 754 CPU, along with support for both AGP 8X and PCI-Express, then that would be really cool for transitioning/upgrading...Not something I'd expect to see anytime soon, but it would be cool :)
mjz5 - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
just stick with an A64 939 pin CPU, and you'll be happy. Intel == crap!