Live from Taiwan: Cebit 2006 Preview
by Wesley Fink on March 7, 2006 12:03 AM EST- Posted in
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Our Take
Cebit is often a show with many industry launches, but this year appears to be a lot thinner than the recent past. The only major NDA to lift at Cebit will be the new NVIDIA video cards. We will be covering those launches and publishing benchmarks and comparisons to the current top-line ATI X1900XT/XTX when the new cards launch.
The big question for NVIDIA, of course, is whether or not their new video cards have the performance to push ahead of ATI X1900XTX, the current performance leader. We will be answering that question soon.
IDF will also be a hot ticket this year with Intel finally having something very interesting to talk about in Conroe. IDF starts today and Anand will be covering the event live from San Francisco. Unfortunately, IDF is still going when Cebit starts in Germany on March 9th. This will force many reviewers and exhibitors to have to choose between IDF and Cebit.
The other big event at Cebit will be the first looks at AM2 motherboards. As you can see in our preview, almost every motherboard maker will be showing at least one AM2 board and many manufacturers will show complete AM2 lines. We are told that AMD will only allow one working AM2 demo per manufacturer (without keyboard, mouse, or benchmark capabilities), so some manufacturers will be showing just boards at their booths.
We will continue our Cebit preview over the next few days as we look at some other items "Live from Taiwan" that will end up being the talk of Cebit 2006.
Cebit is often a show with many industry launches, but this year appears to be a lot thinner than the recent past. The only major NDA to lift at Cebit will be the new NVIDIA video cards. We will be covering those launches and publishing benchmarks and comparisons to the current top-line ATI X1900XT/XTX when the new cards launch.
The big question for NVIDIA, of course, is whether or not their new video cards have the performance to push ahead of ATI X1900XTX, the current performance leader. We will be answering that question soon.
IDF will also be a hot ticket this year with Intel finally having something very interesting to talk about in Conroe. IDF starts today and Anand will be covering the event live from San Francisco. Unfortunately, IDF is still going when Cebit starts in Germany on March 9th. This will force many reviewers and exhibitors to have to choose between IDF and Cebit.
The other big event at Cebit will be the first looks at AM2 motherboards. As you can see in our preview, almost every motherboard maker will be showing at least one AM2 board and many manufacturers will show complete AM2 lines. We are told that AMD will only allow one working AM2 demo per manufacturer (without keyboard, mouse, or benchmark capabilities), so some manufacturers will be showing just boards at their booths.
We will continue our Cebit preview over the next few days as we look at some other items "Live from Taiwan" that will end up being the talk of Cebit 2006.
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Chapbass - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Wasn't it cebit that gigabyte first released their i-ram ramdisk drive? I heard rumors on the forums (I believe it was the AT forums at least..) that they have a new version that is coming out with more memory slots and (possibly) sata II support...that same thread also said something about feb 2k6 release date..Anyone heard anything about that for cebit or anywhere else for that matter? (and please dont just say i-ram sucks or whatever, since that seems to be the e-cool way to do things...)
n7 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Wow, lots of mobo upcoming!Should be interesting.