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X-bit Labs CeBIT Hannover 2004 Coverage: Part 1

Category: Editorial

by Anton Shilov

[ 03/21/2004 | 01:50 PM ]

Yes, finally our patient waiting has been rewarded! The world's largest show devoted to the latest achievements inthe field of computer and other informational technologies took place in Hanover in the middle of March. The showturned out a success. Everybody: the visitors and the exhibitors were more than satisfied. So, let us take a lookat the past CeBIT 2004 show and find out what interesting things it brought into our life.

Table of contents:

• VIA Technologies: Activities, Plans, Intentions
  
• NVIDIA’s NV40 and Low-Cost GeForce PCX 5950
  
• Club 3D and Water-coolers
  
• XGI Volari from ABIT, Chaintech
  
• ASUS’ Socket T and Socket 939 Mainboards
  

There is a plethora of various trade-shows in the world: CES, IDF, Comdex, Computex and CeBIT to name a few. It is pretty hard to outline the most interesting one among them, but one thing we should point out is that the majority of the well-known exhibitions are held in the United States, while the rest of the world has much less of them. CeBIT and Computex Taipei are the two key technology trade-shows in Europe and Asia. In fact, CeBIT is probably the world’s largest fair dedicated to technology and that makes it extremely exciting.

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Today is the 18th of March, 2004, the day when CeBIT Hannover 2004 kicked off. The show will last till the 24th of March and promises to be extremely exciting. X-bit labs is going to cover the most important news, announcements and events that are going to happen during the show, so, stay tuned to find out more about leading hardware companies and their new products presented at the show.

Since astonishing masses of people are heading to CeBIT these days, I could only book an airplane tickets on the 18th of March to get to Hannover, Germany by mid-day. Fortunately, our friends from NVIDIA Corporation, Penny Lawrence and Luciano Alibrandi helped us with the accommodation that is located in the city of Hannover, which X-bit labs greatly appreciates. Hopefully, this will allow me to spend less time in transport and do somewhat better coverage of the show itself.

So, I left rainy Tallinn, Estonia very early in the morning to land in sunny Copenhagen, Denmark, as there were no direct flights. The journey was pretty nice and I even made a couple of pictures from the plane’s window. What is pretty nice about Copenhagen is that they have airport very close to their port. The airport of Copenhagen is pretty busy and to land our plane had to make a round above it which allowed me to take a look on that “transport node area”. Hannover, Germany, welcomed me with loads of clouds in fact, it was so cloudy in Germany that I could not see anything on the ground from the illuminator of the plane.

Unfortunately, due to some issues I spend a little bit more time than planned on finding accommodation, therefore, my presence at the show was not too long, but rather productive – I made a number of pictures and met some really nice people.