Computex 2011 started in Taiwan May 31 Tuesday and ends on June 4th, gadget makers and suppliers presenting their latest creations to Techie Crowd !
Here are latest happenings:
Asus Padfone
It’s a smartphone, it’s a tablet, it’s a Padfone? Asus announced on Monday a new smartphone-tablet combo that features an Android handset with a tablet shell that turns the phone into a one-panel slate.
Asus eee PC X101 MeeGo Netbook
As if the Padfone and the MeMO 3D weren’t enough, Asus also announced a new Eee PC netbook that runs the MeeGo mobile OS, the eee PC X101 (shown here). MeeGo is a Linux-based open source project that merged Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo projects.
The Ultraportable PC Is Now the Ultrabook?
Intel wants to rebrand the ultraportable PC as the Ultrabook, promising laptops that are less than 0.8-inches thick, have longer battery life and are priced under $1000. One of the first Ultrabooks to hit the market will be Asus’ 11.6-inch, 2.4-pound UX21 later in 2011. The first round of Ultrabooks will be followed by laptops in early 2012 with Ivy Bridge-based processors, followed by third-generation Core processors in 2013.
Viewsonic Tablet
If a dual-boot Windows 7-MeeGo netbook from Asus doesn’t grab you, how about a dual-OS Windows 7-Android Froyo tablet? ViewSonic showed off the ViewPad 10Pro, powered by Intel’s new Oak Trail Atom Z670 1.5 GHz processor. The device runs Windows 7 natively and runs a virtualized version of Android. The device features 32GB of onboard storage, 3G connectivity, and 1080p video playback. The 10Pro will go on sale in June in Taiwan and will be priced between $700 and $800.
NVidia Quad-Core Tegra Tablet Chip
Kal-El landed in a tablet at Computex, and no I’m not talking about Superman, but the quad-core Nvidia Tegra chip for tablet devices. Nvidia at Computex showed a prototype tablet with a quad-core processor and 12-core GPU. Nvidia wasn’t talking specs, but claimed the device was rendering a simple game called MadFinger in real time at more than 30 frames per second, according to IDG News Service.
Nvidia Budget Wired 3D Glasses
Hoping to encourage more people to embrace 3D viewing at home, Nvidia also announced a new pair of wired 3D Vision active-shutter glasses for $100. Battery-powered active shutter glasses from Nvidia typically cost about $150. Nvidia says the new glasses support more than 65 different monitors, laptops, and projectors powered by Nvidia’s 3D graphics processors. Nvidia’s wired glasses include a 10-foot USB cable, do not require batteries, and will be available in late June.
Intel Goes Tablet Crazy; Hits the ‘Oak Trail’
Not wanting to lose the tablet market to ARM-based processors, Intel is showing off a slew of “Oak Trail” Atom Z670-based tablets at Computex from manufacturers such as Fujitsu, Lenovo, MSI, and Toshiba. The tablets were running either Windows 7 or Android Honeycomb. Acer is rumored to be coming out with an Oak Trail Honeycomb tablet in July.
Gigabyte S1080 Windows 7 Tablet
Announced in January, Gigabyte is showing off its 1.97 pound, S1080 Windows 7 tablet. The device features a 10.1-inch 1024-pixel by 600-pixel capacitive multitouch display. The tablet also sports an Atom N550 dual-core processor, a 320GB hard drive, USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. The S1080 will hit the U.S. this June, according to Engadget.
LG V300 All-In-One PC
LG announced its first all-in-one PC during Computex, which it calls the LG V300. The top configuration of this all-in-one PC includes a Core i7 processor, a 750GB hard drive, 8GB of RAM, a Blu-ray player, and a 23-inch multitouch 3D LED display, according to Engadget. LG did not announce a U.S. launch date.
MSI Announces Thin-And-Light Laptops and Tablets
MSI is showing new X-Slim laptops at Computex that are less than an inch thick, contain the latest Intel and AMD processors, and offer over eight hours of battery life. It is also showing new tablets running Windows or Android at the Taipei trade show.
SanDisk SSD
SanDisk has two new solid-state drive lines for tablets, laptops and other mobile devices. The new U100 drives for laptops are available in sizes from 8GB to 256GB. The SSDs use a SATA III interface that allows them to transfer data about twice as fast as their SanDisk P4 predecessors. Asus is using the U100 drives in its UX series Intel Core-based Ultrabooks. SanDisk’s new iSSDs are geared for tablets and available in sizes from 8GB to 128GB. The new i100 drive is the world’s smallest SSD with 128GB capacity, according to the company.
Chrome OS Moves To Taipei
If you don’t think Google is serious about pushing laptops loaded with its web-centric Chrome OS, think again. The search giant announced during Computex that it was opening a software engineering center in Taipei to work closely with Asian laptop makers on computers running Chrome OS, according to IDG News Service. Taiwan is home to companies such as Foxconn, Quanta and Compal that make hardware components for major computer companies such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Taiwan is also home to Asus and Acer.
ARM Servers
ARM Holdings President Tudor Brown (shown here) said Monday that several companies including Nvidia, Marvell, and Calxeda were working on ARM-based servers. But, according to IDG News Service, you shouldn’t expect to see them hit the market in large numbers until 2015. The next version of ARM’s Cortex architecture will support virtualization and 64-bit software–two essential stepping-stones on the way to an ARM-based server lineup.
2 replies on “Computex 2011: Top 12 Buzz Makers in Taiwan Tech Show”
Asus padfone is a best concept among all. its looks are really cool. 3D glasses are also cool
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