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Computex Reports

by Steve Gibson, Jun 04, 2002 9:05am PDT
Related Topics – Hardware (PC only)

The big Computex show is going on right now in some foreign country (Taipei in Taiwan), and there's all kinds of wacky hardware news coming out of it. Think of this as like an E3 show for hardware vendors, except they have a couple shows like this a year. I'll just list off a few of the guys doing coverage:

- Day1 articles: HardOCP , Tech-Report , AnandTech (2) , TomsHardware , Legion Hardware , OCworkbench , T-Break - Day2 articles: TweakTown , AnandTech , The DDR Zone , T-Break - Interviews: Kingmax
note: HardOCP seems to have died for a bit. Also, TomsHardware smells funny.


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    By: goatsecxy x
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    say what you want about Via but I'm glad to see someone else jump in against Creative: Creative Labs has been the controlling force in sound cards for years now and VIA seems very focused on changing that. Timothy Chen of VIA stated, "...we will give Creative a run for their money." He also went on to say that VIA wants to see every add in sound card using their new sound chip named "Envy24HT". What VIA is going to do different that almost anyone else has ever done is share their technology rather than keep it proprietary. Instead of boring you with regurgitation of the information, here is a quote from VIA.

    The VIA Envy24HT is a versatile 24-bit multi-channel audio controller that enables studio level audio performance. With support for 10 outbound streams the VIA Envy24HT can easily support the latest theatre quality 5.1, 6.1 or even 7.1 surround sound systems. For enhanced playback the VIA Envy24HT enables hardware downmixing that allows customers to experience the complete surround sound experience whether using four, or even two speakers.

    Supporting up to 192kHz sampling rates the VIA Envy24HT has the highest audio recording quality in its class giving home studio musicians four simultaneous inbound streams with all paths passing as 24-bit audio, "as is", unaltered, bit per bit accurate. The VIA Envy24HT also brings full support for Windows® WDM drivers.
    Jun 04, 2002 4:36pm PDT