2006 Computex coverage at the INQUIRER

AS EVER, INQ hacks fighting deadlines and more deadly hangovers from the party the night before, rush to bring you all the news from the premier hardware show in the known cosmos, Computex.

Here's the coverage we've, er, covered, so far.

Proton wins INQ best in show award
Broadcom Opteron chipsets missing in action
Nosing in to Avermedia TVs
Super Talent shows talent for memory stick making
Tyan has boards with FB-DIMM risers, lots of them
Iwill's innovative boards exposed
Acer's AMD-powered Ferrari notebooks snapped
Arima shows server mobo prowess
Asus makes the first Nvidian HDMI graphics card
Qimonda FB DDR 2 667 memory up and running
Foxconn builds PC in a football
HDMI X1600 demand outstrips supply
Via gets back into chipset game
Via shows off system on a John
Sparkle extends enthusiast card line
Thecus shows five-drive NAS box
Abit angled heatsink doesn't cut corners
DDR-III will require new motherboards

Geil pulls off memory coup
Foxconn goes legacy-free into the mainstream
Intel and AMD share halls but not goals
Computex 2006 slim on themes, news and squids
Instant colour LEDs for cables tip up
Corsair to launch 8GB USB key
Boundless Gaming is bounded
16GB flash drive costs $400 to make
Antazone makes the best heatsinks
Marketing statement of the year emerges
Leadtek stays in the 3D game

Nvidia to keep the ULI brand
Vista beta 2 won't run SLI
Unreal Tournament 2007 to arrive in March 07
Nvidia blocked ULI chipset shipments
Crossfire tips up in a Shuttle box, maychance
Gigabyte does eSATA right
Just why the heck the Socket F is delayed
Here is how to stop worldwide piracy
Hexus booth savagely vandalised
Kingston has the best media player at Computex
Price of 64GB flash disk drive to plummet

Shuttle squashes Mini-PC
AMD confirms new mobile core
Corsair poaches salesman from Sandisk
DDR-II 1.25GHz comes into play
Notebook runs 500 hours on battery
Pod people protest at Computex
Want a 20-inch HD-DVD laptop?
The new Abit becomes official
Why Origami UMPC battery life sucks
Sapphire Ultima X1600 Pro available
Corsair runs DDR 2 at 1250MHz
HDMI and HDCP licences cost $15K each
Abit Nforce 4 supports socket AM2
Sapphire shows off its X1600 Pro HDMI card
DDR 3 for desktops to come late 2007
SLI can do multi display

Nokia powered by ATI design to take time
Intel gets deeper into graphics
Old hard drives start to kick the bucket
G.Skill shows record low-latency DDR 2
Mike Mageek fights the Taipei weather
Wireless cities emerge at last
Software detects top sports moments in the game
Palm sized video records arrive
Scythe keeps its cool as Intel temperature rises
Tyan invokes server Typhoon
AMD and Intel together at last
Micro SD getting bigger
Wall-O-FB-DIMMs hits Computex
HIS has three cool cards
Quad 7950 driver to come at the end of summer
Ipod twin plays MP3/WMA
AMD won't buy ATI

The first round of Computex heatsinks sinks in
ATI chickens out from menage a trois
Intel paper launches Vista-ready chipsets
ATI RV570XT launch postponed till autumn
DDR 3 1066 showcased
SIS joins sinking ship
The INQ guide to using Taipei's citywide Wi-Fi
New products, old problems for Intel emerge
Nvidia bans 7960 GX2 Quad SLI testing
AMD Live! beats Viiv
ATI shows off GPU physics
Power toys showed off at Computex
Oh no! Football flash drive kicked off
If it's noisy, AMD must be live, right?
Iwill recruits gurkha to guard AMD and Intel gates
No band at Computex shock as temperature soars
Fanless mid-range HDMI cards unveiled

ATI set to drop Physics bomb
DFI mobo has plenty of slots
AMD socket 1207 Opterons delayed
Asus shows off slinky leather laptop
ATI asks for a third PCIe slot
ATI shaves hard drive to 1.8 inches
Zalman shows elegance in waterblocks
Toshiba gets 200GB on one 2.5-inch drive
Bored by hotel TV? Watch the other guests instead

See Also
VNU Net coverage 2006
INQUIRER 2005 Computex
INQUIRER 2004 Computex
INQUIRER 2003 Computex Pink Squid edition
INQUIRER 2002 Computex