CeBIT 2005: CPUs, Coolers and Power Supplies Worth More Than a Second Look : Introduction
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: cebit, 2005
Introduction
On the second day of the trade show, outside weather conditions worsened. Strong winds accompanied the non-stop rain, which made for an even more bone-chilling effect. As we braved the elements that day outside, inside the conference halls we found plenty of great gear, including media center PCs, power supplies and memory modules. A relaxing tour of the design center at CeBIT that day also showed how form and color can complement technology, a concept that is all-too-often neglected. Meanwhile, no estimate of attendance figures by trade show host Messe AG, which will announce its preliminary count this weekend.
CPUs
Waiting For AMD's Dual Core
AMD has once again decided to save all the money needed for another full-blown trade show stand.
In the desktop segment there is nothing really new with Texas chipmaker AMD for this year's CeBIT, unfortunately. Hardly any reason for there to be either since the Athlon 64 processors are mostly still ahead of Intel's chips and the dual core generation is not set to roll out until the second half of the year.
AMD has thus officially confirmed that the competition is certain to commercialize a finished dual-core device first. AMD of course intends to offer the better chip with its dual-core Toledo starting in late summer, so we'll see. As of yet the only sure thing is that almost all socket 939 systems can be made Toledo-compatible with the help of a fresh BIOS update, while Intel's dual-core chip Pentium D is guaranteed to require new boards due to alterations of certain details - even though socket 775 hasn't changed.
AMD Turion 64's "open Architecture" Instead Of A Platform Brand
In our last CeBIT report, we covered the Turion 64 mobile processor introduced by AMD based on Athlon 64 technology, which gets more and more frugal with energy with each model. It's only natural that some compromises had to be made when it comes to clock speed.
AMD plans to commercialize the new processor without a marketing concept like the one initiated for the Centrino - after all, technical details and a strong manufacturer brand name are what it's really all about, Kevin Owen, an AMD business development manager for the mobile business segment in the computation products group, said.
Turion 64 will be a bit more expensive than the comparable Mobile Athlon 64, though still less than the Pentium M.
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