As if Smartphones, smart books, low cost under powered notebook PCs or whatever Microsoft wants to call netbooks now I think that we have gone overboard on Mobile Internet Devices.

We now have an excessive amount of ways to keep connected. But that is not enough for many and not enough for Intel who announced five more MID devices based on the Moorestown.

the devices ranged from a traditional 3G Smartphone through to navigation and entertainment products.

Read more here.

I’m sitting outside the event Entrance. There’s a huge rush from the camera people and the doors are open. We’ve got the press release and it looks like my predictions are correct. We should see 5 Moorestown devices today

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We finally managed to stop by and visit the friendly people at the G.Skill booth in Nangang and they had a mighty fine demo on display for all to see.

The highlight product was its Perfect Storm Series DDR3 memory operating at a super fast DDR3-2200. While we cannot be entirely sure, it is probably the fastest true and working DDR3 memory on display at Computex this year.

Get a good look at it working in the video below:

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Over at Computex we ran into Zalman, in the photo shown below you can spot the all new CNPS 10X cooler.

This is interesting to see from Zalman, as they dumped the circular design, which is totally new for Zalman. The new cooler supports all modern sockets including Intel’s 775, 1366 upcoming 1156 (core i5), and AMD’s AM3, AM2+, AM2, 754, 939, and 940.

The nickel-plated cooler comes with a RPM controllable PWM fan speed controller (located in the top) that overrides the motherboard’s PWM signal for manual fan speed control. With the help of a little switch you can activate low, medium, or high. According to Zalman this will be one of their best ever performing coolers. It’s priced rather high though, expect to drop roughly 80 USD.

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Some very early AMD G34 motherboards were spotted at Computex this year that will be filled with AMD’s upcomming six-core and twelve-core derivitives of Istanbul.

The two boards differ in application as the first from Inventec seems to be more server oriented with its 24 DIMM slots supporting quad-channel memory. Each socket on the G34 HPC motherboard has twelve DIMM slots of its own.

The second board is from Quanta it appears to be more oriented to the workstation market with only eight DIMM slots per socket but room for a few PCI-Express slots. Quanta’s G34 should also support quad-channel memory as well.

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Earlier on today out in Nangang we visited Nelly from IN WIN who was kind enough to provide us with a video tour of its booth and a couple of their key new products, which have just launched at Computex.

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If you have read the latest Computex report here on Guru3D, you’d already seen it. But AMD released their new 785 chipset. Computex is a good place where you can run into some examples.

Basically what I’m seeing here’s is the AMD 880 chipset yet renamed to 785G. The only real new difference is that a new graphics core now is used in the 785 series. The new IGP is dubbed Radeon HD4200, while the 780G’s IGP was named Radeon HD3200. You should start seeing 785-equipped motherboards quite soon.

It is a pure AM3 board that supports dual channel DDR3 memory. It has integrated DX10.1 video support. The motherboard also comes with D-SUB/DVI/HDMI connector, 6 USB 2.0, on board 1394, GbE, 8 channel audio, 2 eSATA ports.

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We made time to visit the folks at Dolby at their Computex suite today and they had an interesting demo to show us of Dolby Home Theater v3 and just what it is all about and what it is capable of delivering on the PC audio front.

The test subject was a high-end 17-inch Acer notebook with Dolby Home Theater v3 testing certification. What that actually means is Acer sends the notebook over to Dolby’s San Fran office and audio experts fine tune the audio systems of the Acer notebook for best quality sound possible.

In the video below you get some type of idea of the difference with the Acer notebook not tweaked by Dolby audio engineers and then of course with the audio enhancer and surround sound tweaks enabled. Take a listen for yourself below:

Keep in mind our video here doesn’t fully justify the improved sound quality we noticed in person, but it provides a fairly accurate representation of what we heard.

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ATi/AMD is again ahead of the game in the Direct X world. At Computex in Taipei they showed off the first demo of a GPU running DX11. This steals some of the thunder out of nVidia’s claim that they will be the first to market with DX11 parts.

Both TSMC and GlobalFoundries were on hand to celebrate the moment. TSMC showed off a 40nm Wafer as if to show that they can actually make 40nm products despite the leakage problems.

nVidia has not talked about DX11 yet at Computex but has shown some 40nm products with DX10.1

Read more here.

The demo, aptly dubbed “Knight” – as in AMD’s knight in shining armour we assume – was probably the biggest news to emerge from AMD in awhile and was all the more special for its heavy use of tessellation technology, which apparently allows for more realistic and detailed surfaces.

Both TSMC and Global Foundries reps were present at the event, although, sadly, both firms were on their best behaviour, so there were no daggers drawn at dawn in Taipei today.

TSMC presented its new DX11 wafer – probably in a desperate bid to assert its confidence that it can indeed deliver the goods with its leaky 40nm process.

If you have been around computers for any length of time you probably remember the ATi TV tuners and of course the All-In-Wonder cards. ATi was, at one time, one of the undisputed kings of the computer TV tuner market.

However when Vista came along ATi sort of dropped off the map. At Computex they have decided to show that they are not dead they have just been resting. To do this they showed off a new ATI Theater HD 750 PC Cip.

This new chip will feature just about every type of TV standard you can imagine. The support list looks like that Alphabet.

Availability should be towards the end of the year with PCI-Express and USB models on the list.

Read more here.

This little baby will offer HDTV for desktop and notebook PC systems and supports NTSC, ATSC, DVB-T, Clear-QAM, digital TV and PAL/SECAM, FM and DVB-T radio. (In other words, it supports everything out there.sub.ed.) It can be used for capturing and converting recorded TV content to popular formats such as H.264, AVI, MPEG, DviX, WMV and MPEG4. It also supports ATI’s Stream when paired up with an ATI Radeon Stream capable card.

The new ATI Theater HD 750 should be available later this year as a PCI-Express add-on card, USB stick and any other way of implementing this chip for some HDTV action.

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