Report: Computex 2002 (1/5) |
By Lars Weinand - Editor In Chief RIVA Station / Editor Tomīs Hardware Guide This year's Computex in Taiwan taught me a very valuable, although not really new, lesson: A 24-hour day is much too short! Originally, in addition to my usual reports for THG, I was planning to do a little photo reporting for RIVA Station as well. In effect, that would have meant spending all night hunched in front of my laptop in the hotel room. Considering the party atmosphere and the general feeling of awe, wonder and adventure that is the Computex experience, that would have meant a rather large sacrifice on my part! While this may sound like I just wanted to just satisfy my hedonistic tendencies, that's not the case. Well, not entirely... But seriously, as hard a time as many of you may have believing it, what goes on at the company parties off the showroom floor and after the doors have closed for the day is at least as important as the official expo. "See and be seen!" is the motto of the day - well, and the night. Time flies when you're having fun, and so the days went by far too quickly. However, I caught a mean cold on my return flight, forcing me to spend my first day back home in bed (sniffle, cough, wheeze). Okay, enough excuses - back to the keyboard and on with the show. I proudly present - The Computex Taipei 2002 photo story! AMD Although I already mentioned most of this in the news, AMD is included here again for the sake of completeness:
Everyone is waiting for the K8 with bated breath. Practically every mainboard company was showing off one or more mainboards with a K8 chipset either from VIA or AMD. Even though the Hammer's integrated memory controller makes a classical Northbridge obsolete, it still requires one other critical component - the AGP controller. |
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