Tablets, Chips and iPad Killer Day at Computex Taipei
This is my third time attending Computex Taipei in ten years. This year marks the 30th year tha
t this party has been going on and the magnitude of this conference continues to grow. To facilitate the madness, this year’s show is being held in four separate venues across the city. Candidly, there is too much to see, try 5,000 booths with supermodels and promotional giveaways abound. What recession, tech is sizzling!
There are lots of new chips being announced, it is hard to keep up with all their names and the collision of the CPU and the GPU on a single piece of silicon. Day two was really iPad killer day at the show, also netbook killer day as tablets are back!
Intel introduced the next generation of Atom Chips for netbooks, tablets and smartphones which will ship by the end of the year. Qualcomm is out and shipping their third generation Snapdragon chips. AMD demonstrated two of their Fusion accelerated processing units. The Ontario and the Llano will ship in the first half of 2011.









