Breaking down our IDF photo tour into three sections, we have the first one here: server related items. I'll let the photos do most of the talking.
It's always good to see something a little different and it was the turn of Kingston to show off something novel at IDF.
At IDF, we've been collecting plenty of pictures, so let's take a short photo tour of some of the interesting multimedia hardware there is to see.
Continuing our IDF coverage with some retrospective content, we've obtained the slides from Intel's Multi-Core briefing. So let's take a closer look at what their plans are.
While Intel's desktop cores have been looked upon by some as less appealing than AMD's offerings, and a little on the warm side, the same cannot be said for their mobile products. Centrino leaps from strength to strength as a platform and the Pentium M is proving to be quite the mobile workhorse. So, from IDF we have something for the mobile gang: a look at what's in store from the Yonah and Sossaman mobile processors.
Servers need storage, so we move on with the photo tour and look at the storage solutions on show at IDF.
We spent some time talking to Microsoft about Media Centre and XBox 360. Whilst there is some good news, there is some even better news if you are planning to upgrade to VISTA.
HEXUS today managed to snag some time with VIA and learn of their plans for the mobile market. VIA will be launching C7-M which has a heap of features too long to go in to now. However, we will give you more info later on.
One of the best kept secrets in the industry appears to have been the VIIV trademark which Intel registered several months back. Many have speculated what this was all about. However, tommorow at IDF Intel will annouce that this is indeed the trademark for their \\\'Desktrino\\\' platform.
Whilst this week is dominated by news from Intel, we have spent sometime talking with NVIDIA and finding out their plans for the future. Here is some brief updates on the state of play.
All of the X800 cards from ATI will support Crossfire, including the X800GT and X800GTO. You will need a master card in order to run it and wait for the 2nd driver release. The launch drivers will just support X800XT and X850XT derivatives.
JPEG has been with us for Years, this project aims to bring a 3D format to mainstream applications
Whilst at IDF you hear a lot about the future technologies as the current 'new' technologies have just been deployed.
Within the digital home Intel still state that a wired 'hard' backbone is important. Whilst using the powerlines within the home is not a new idea, the Homeplug alliance is taking it to the next level.
ATI have just annouced that they now support Crossfire on the Intel 955XBK motherboard. Whilst we reported this earlier we have just found out more information, ATI are stating that in order to run an X800 Crossfire configuration you need an X800 Crossfire card, if you want to run an X850 Crossfire configuration you need an X850 Crossfire card.
With all of the enhancements in systems today it is a suprise that we still have to use the DOS styled BIOS to configure and give our systems the performance edge
My Fanny has unearthed a .bean in San Francisco that we think will tickle the fancy of those people who are looking for some full-on 12-pipe 3D graphics action, costing more than the X800 GT which ATi recently announced, but less than its RADEON X800 XL.
Opening IDF today Intel's CEO Paul Ottelini told Developers, Partners, Press and Analysts about their new Architecture.
Currently Intel have Netburst and Mobile Microarchitecture- today they are talking about the next generation microarchitecture.
HEXUS attended a pre-IDF warm up speech from Steve Pawlowski who leads the Digital Enterprise group, from which you’ll see high end chipset and server products.
HEXUS remembers that at the time Intel were very keen to inform us that their was no cost associated with HT and it was 'free' performance. Surely it should be on all platforms still?
Intel today opened IDF with a speech from Jeff Mcrae, Director of Intel USA, who opened by stating that Intel’s aim is to lead and pioneer the future.
Computing is going mobile – in the form of the power which we are carrying with us – a growth spurt at the beginning of 2002 which is still shooting up now.
No doubt about it, in the race to deliver a dual GPU PCIe graphics solution to the market, NVIDIA not only convincingly beat ATi Technologies out of the stable door, but some might think that, since the launch of its SLi in November last year, its kicked the stable door shut.
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