Tag archive: Taipei

Joint venture Garmin-Asus has formally launched the Nuviphone M20, a more compact follow-up to the company's first combined phone/GPS device, the Nuvifone G60. The Nuvifone M20 sports a 2.8-inch touch screen display, a 3 megapixel camera, 4 GB of Flash storage, and (of course) connectivity out the wazoo, including 2G and 2G data service along with 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 wireless networking. However, the M20 also sports something… Read More

Taiwanese computer maker Asus announced at an investor's conference in Taipei this week that it managed to sell 4.9 million Eee PCs during 2008, a figure just short of its stated goal of selling 5 million units. Asus CEO Jerry Shen blames the near-miss on a sudden downturn in consumer spending at the end of the year as the world economy slowed down. But Asus also says it has a new strategy for 2008: after pumping out more than 20 Eee… Read More

On the verge of the Computex 2008 trade show in Taipei, Asus has announced the Asus Eee PC 901, an update to its surprisingly popular low-powered, low-priced, and very portable notebook computer. The Eee 901 will be available in two models—the 1000 and 1000(H)—and feature screen sizes up to 10 inches and Asus's Super Hybrid Engine technology that, combined, can offer a whopping 7.8 hours of battery life. “With… Read More

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but flash-based solid-state drives for notebook computers may be on the verge of entering the mainstream computing environment, as Hewlett-Packard confirmed it plans to offer solid-state drives as an option in notebook computers it announced earlier this month, and plans to offer the option on future models as well. Speaking at a news conference in Taipei, HP's Dan Forlenza said HP plans to… Read More

Taiwan's Asustek, a leading PC manufacturer and well-known contract manufacturer of both PCs and consumer electronics, has announced that it will split itself into three companies in a move to separate its own brand-name business from its contract manufacturing businesses. “We think this will boost our competitiveness in each area,” said Asustek chairman Jonney Shih at a news event in Taipei. Under the proposed split,… Read More

System builders will have yet another choice of form factor for their PCs after AMD announced on Tuesday that they have finalized a new open standard, dubbed DTX, with a focus on energy efficiency. The new specification was announced at the opening of the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, just six months after AMD introduced the draft for it. The company credited support from many hardware vendors for the quick leap from… Read More

Intel's executive vice president Sean Maloney took the wraps off the company's latest chipset on Tuesday morning, at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. The 3 Series chipset, formerly codenamed "Bearlake," will support Intel's latest 45nm Penryn processors, which will come out later this year. The 3 Series chipset will support DDR2 memory up to 800MHz, or DDR3 memory up to 1333MHz, along with support for… Read More

At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Toshiba plans to unveil its SD-L912A HD DVD writer for notebook computers (Japanese), enabling notebook computer users to burn single-layer HD DVD media, as well as double-layer DVDs and standard CD media. A single-layer HD DVD disc can store up to 20 GB of data, making the media a good option for backing up large amount of files and data, such as music, images, and (of course) video. Toshiba… Read More

Well, you can't accuse computer maker Acer of being small-minded: the company has just announced the North American availability of its Aspire 9800 portable computer, sporting 20.1-inch, HD-capable wide-screen display and HD DVD drive. Acer had shown the 9800 at Taipei's Computex show, and has now migrated the product to the North American market, where “bigger is better” might be an easy sell—a point Dell is… Read More

At a Taipei news conference today, BenQ CEO K.Y. Lee showed off a prototype half-height disk burner which can read and write Blu-ray disk as well as standard CD and DVD media. Lee said the company plans to ship the unit by the end of 2006. Lee declined to provide pricing information for the Blu-ray drive, noting that the eventual cost will be determined by the price of the drive's read/write head. Lee also said BenQ's support… Read More

Intel today said they were starting an initiative to help communities better use wireless technology and “innovative” applications to improve local services for governments, businesses and citizens. The new program is called

H.264 is the video compression standard that will be used in the next generation high-definition video players such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD. The ATI H.264 video demonstration with ATI's next generationRadeon(r) technology will occur during Computex Taipei 2005 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. H.264 is a new video compression standard that's designed to have two to three times the compression efficiency of current schemes such as MPEG-2,… Read More

“The Terra PC is a reference design created by Via that will be licensed to PC makers around the world. The company will show off prototypes at the Computex trade show in Taipei next month, and systems are likely to hit the shelves in different markets worldwide by September or October, said Ravi Pradhan, Via's manager for India.   The proposed price for the Terra, which includes a monitor, is achieved by picking components… Read More

“Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd in Korea announced LCD TVs larger than 50 inches, but they are not in the market. Our 56-inch TV will be the largest available model commercially,” BenQ said. BenQ has just announced at Computex Taipei that it will sell 46-inch models from July 2004. By introducing a series of large LCD TV models, it aims to acquire a reputation and global share next to Samsung, Sharp Corp, and Sony Corp, BenQ… Read More

To encourage new IT innovations domestically and to assist companies in overseas marketing, COMPUTEX TAIPEI features the annual “Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI” award ceremony. Through the recognition and awarding of IT companies, in correspondence with the organizers' activities, the award not only assists Taiwan IT companies in global marketing, but also creates new topics for the exhibition. This year, the awards are… Read More