Complete INQUIRER CeBIT 2004 coverage

HERE IS THE COMPLETE collection of INQUIRER stories from CeBIT 2004 - the IT trade fair held in the Halle of Hannover between March 18-24th.

Keenly-honed undercover INQUIRER officers, under the torrid command of Lord Bostoon of Barking, are stationed around premises with eyes and knees peeled.

Their reports are arranged in order of posting, with the oldest at the bottom. Some reports may seem incomplete or garbled. They are included to reflect conditions on the front line.

INQUIRER eats Intel's lunch
Fujitsu 128 CPU mainframe better than Sun's
AMD to cut Opteron prices in early May
IBM looks for third party PowerPC mobo partners
Intel "will take 18 months" to catch AMD up

Nvidia leaks NV40 release dates
Shiny things we saw at CeBIT
Mageek ruins INQUIRER mission photograph
Solar vestments power PDAs, notebooks and all

MP3 Car FM audio arrives
Intel's LGA socket 775 nightmare
There's a difference at McDoners
CeBIT Cossacks offer programs with a difference

Lian Li's next generation ATX chassis shows the way
The incestuous nature of IWill and Arima
Foxconn shows off outrageous enthusiast case

HP incandescent with Intel over 64 bit plans
Blade market descends into chaos
Intel launches outsourcing PC
APC Data Cube pumps 40KW

CeBIT Freebie shock
Intel to offer twin Grantsdale chipsets
Tracking the Genie
Tejas CPUs doing the rounds in Taiwan

Windows 64 bit edition not till second half of 2004
Get Pink Panther on your mobile
Iranian carpetbaggers run into server trouble

Athlon 939-pin CPU pictured
CeBIT goes back to the roots
Nvidia becomes the NV40 Nforcer
Epox one of first to market with LGA-775 Socket-T

RV380 caught on camera
Deadly dozen pipelines and PS2.0 leaves ATI gasping
Show lag starts to bite in Hannover

First hands-on look at NV40
Intel set to introduce processors with integrated memory controllers
Via puts weight behind PCI Express for AMD, Intel

Via intros "Nanoboard" ITX mobo
Gates firm launches bit of CRM fluff
T-Mobile falls into 3G pit
Hitachi shows off RFID dust

Panda fraulein just has to skin and bear it
Hole appears in Samsung's Smartphones
Via releases CN400 media chipset
Steeleye stealth broadens Linux appeal

AMD fanboys shave FX logos out of hair
Wi-Fi becomes Woe-Fi down at the Messe
Curse of Corsair leaves memory firm high and dry
Siemens claims tiny first

From behind the lines at CeBIT 2004

Motorola shows GSM voice handset
Psion turns its nose up at consumer
SIS preps further Rambus chipsets

SIS rejects integrated wireless approach
CeBIT man boots Windows XP on MacOS
ULI, ATI team up over PCI Express

Intel pushes digital car
AMD cautious about committing to DDR2

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