CEE2003: A One-Vendor Trade Show

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."

Comments

Why AMD?

[Torgo's Pizza]

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.

its there already

[ArchieBunker]

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.

Another opinion of the same event

[juggleme]

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