With thousands of exhibitors in five halls and countless private suites
across the city of Taipei, it's nearly impossible to do justice to
Computex in just a few words. Nevertheless, we've done our best to scour
the entire exhibition in order to bring you the most important and
interesting products.
Motherboards
Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock
and ECS are the biggest names, at least as far as the Indian market
goes. All of them had new models based on Intel's new 9-series to show
off. We already know they support tiny M.2 SSDs and SATA Express for
blazing fast storage, but there were still a few pleasant surprises -
more than one company claimed to have the first USB 3.1 products!
(Also see: Asus at Computex 2014 - In Pictures)
As
usual, there were lots of flashy heatsinks and special gaming and
overclocking models.
AMD mobile Kaveri and tiny PC
The
second-rung chipmaker still might not have what it takes to engineer a
breakout success, but there were still a few solid products on display
at AMD's booth.
Also on display was a minuscule PC, smaller than
most of today's top smartphones, which uses the new DockPort standard to
allow connections to a monitor, peripherals and network.
(Also see: Intel at Computex 2014 - In Pictures)
Asus Transformer Book Chi
It
might have been overshadowed. by Asus's own Transformer Book V (Pictures), but the
Chi might actually be more significant - and more likely to launch as a
commercial product. Based on the brand new Intel Core M platform (which
itself is still rather hush-hush), the Chi is shockingly thin and
light.
3D printing
Of the three or four 3D printing demos we
saw, the one by Inno3D was the most impressive. The device itself sells
for just $1500, prints directly off a USB device or SD card, and,
according to company reps, is comparable to American 3D printers that
cost fifteen times as much.
Wearables
Unsurprisingly, dozens
of companies, including China's famous knock-off manufacturers, are
jumping on the wearables bandwagon.
(Also see: Dell at Computex 2014 - In Pictures)
Most of the products we saw were
outright terrible, with tiny poky screens and limited functionality.
Some were just basic Bluetooth notifiers or pedometers, while others
were full-blown phones with their own SIM cards.
Keyboards, mice, headsets, power banks
These
device categories seem to bring out the best and worst in Taiwanese and
Chinese designers.
(Also see: Corsair at Computex 2014 - In Pictures)
As always, there were thousands of variants in every
possible shape, size and colour.
iPhone 6 cases
It's a bit
optimistic to have iPhone 6 cases ready now, but most leaks of upcoming
iPhone shapes and sizes have come via the case manufacturing industry.
(Also see: Nvidia at Computex 2014 - In Pictures)
We'll only know later this year whether or not this mockup was accurate,
but if it does prove to be so, remember that you saw it here first!
Disclosure: Intel sponsored the correspondent's flights and hotel for Computex.
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