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CEE2003: A One-Vendor Trade Show

Posted by timothy on from the good-info-anyhow dept.

Billy Stephens writes "Few people knew about the CEE2003 event put on by Chaintech this year. They flew some of the top media analysts and resellers out to Spain to show off their new K8 motherboards and Nvidia Geforce FX based video cards. Unfortunately there was a lot of bad news to be had as well. AMD pushed back their Athlon 64 CPU until September so there were no motherboards based on it to show off, and Nvidia announced they would only release around 4,000 of their Geforce FX GPUs, primarily for preorders only. It looks like ATI has rattled Nvidia more than what people thought. Monkey Review has a great summary of this event with plenty of pictures. Overall I am impressed with the quality Chaintech has put into their products from an aesthetic point of view, it's a shame that both Nvidia and AMD are having product issues."

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  1. Why AMD? by Torgo's+Pizza · · Score: 4, Informative
    Why lump AMD with NVidia in having "issues"? Just because they delayed release of their Clawhammer products doesn't mean they're having problems. Is it their fault that Microsoft can't come up with a consumer 64-bit version operating system? Can you blame them for giving Barton more of a chance in the marketplace by making sure that it doesn't compete with Hammer at the same time?

    Just another case of a submission ruined by the submitter inserting an uninformed opinion at the end of the article.

    1. Re:Why AMD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      You are full of crap. They are releasing the SERVER version in APRIL because they don't need the higher clock speeds that they are unable to produce. Most industry analysts see the delay of clawhammer as a direct result of their problems with SOI, and the Microsoft OS EXCUSE is nothing but PR spin. Maybe you should read some more FACTS instead of blindly towing the AMD party line...

  2. its there already by ArchieBunker · · Score: 3, Informative

    With an MSDN subscription you can get copies of 64 bit XP. Their download page even lists 64 bit patches and service packs, what are you talking about? Intel already sells I2 servers and desktops. Its totally AMD's issue.

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    1. Re:its there already by Slack3r78 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Except that the current version won't run with the AMD chips. The 64 bit XP that's out now is for the Itanium chip structure (IA-64) which is a totally different chip for AMD's x86-64 structure. Basically, Intel threw out all the old chip design for the new structure, while AMD is focusing on expanding the current structure to run native 64 bit. there's a big difference there. so in short, no, it's not just AMD's problem.

  3. Another opinion of the same event by juggleme · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out the Tech Report's for more text, and a better picture of the video card that may never be.

  4. Get a clue and read. Idiot AC's, I swear.... by Rahga · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1711

    "NVIDIA would love to move away from these costly Sun boxes altogether and transition to a much more affordable x86-linux platform, but the problem is finding a 64-bit x86 solution. NVIDIA is currently evaluating Intel's Itanium for use in their farm but as far as their needs go, AMD's Opteron would be a gift from God. NVIDIA is eagerly awaiting the launch of Opteron so that their dreams may be fulfilled with an affordable x86 solution that offers 64-bit memory addressability; until then, they'll have to stick with these million-dollar sun systems."