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CeBIT 2005: A New Age in Electronics?

06:00 - Monday 14 March 2005 by THG Reporting Team

1. IT Sector Enters "Old-Guard" Electronics Sectors
2. Suspense Reigns In Anticipation Of Figures
3. Motherboards
4. Abit: Fatal1ty Vs. Everyone Else - How Good Are You?
5. Asus Advertises With THG
6. DFI Offers One More For The LANParty
7. nForce4 Professional For Gamers
8. Tuckaway's Elegant System Design
9. MSI's nForce4 For Pentium 4 With Soft SLI
10. Robotic Control Via Bluetooth
11. The OCZ DDR Booster: Extreme, Through And Through
12. VIA Launches Dual-Processors System
13. AOpen
14. Soltek
15. Jetway
16. Supermicro
17. Tyan

18. Tyan, Continued
19. Albatron
20. Widio
21. Elitegroup
22. Gigabyte Boards
23. Notebooks That Offer Nothing New (Technically Speaking)
24. Notebooks, Continued
25. Turion: A New Mobile CPU From AMD
26. Suddenly, There They Were: Turion Notebooks
27. Suddenly, There They Were: Turion Notebooks, Continued
28. SFF PCs
29. Albatron
30. Foxconn
31. MSI
32. Sky Hawk
33. Mitas
34. Closing With Some Curiosities

It was not just German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who exuded hope. The mood on the first day among exhibitors was noticeably better than last year. The THG team took its first tour.

This year, the convergence of IT with conventional home electronics has heavily influenced the world's largest computer trade fair this year. The trend also accounts for a pervasive positive mood, even on the first day, as exhibitors enter into a gigantic new market segment. However, during this convergence process, which is likely to continue over the next few years, several companies from conventional entertainment electronics will succumb to massive competition. Above all, the topic of margins is what scares makers of "brown goods" the most: Until now, fat profits had been made for decades. Meanwhile, the IT sector, particularly in the last few years, has had to get used lower margins. But it's not just that. Many companies now have good positions after the trimming and streamlining processes and are hungry for new targets.