Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) will showcase a super-slim small-form-factor (SFF) PC and its own-brand motherboards during Computex 2005, which runs from tomorrow through June 4, according to Christin Wang, global marketing sales manager of Foxconn's Channel Service Division.
Acer unveiled its Ferrari 4000 carbon-fiber black Ferrari-series notebook in Taiwan yesterday, with the notebook expected to be available worldwide in June. The notebook vendor also stated it will introduce its Ferrari design into its line of n50 PDAs in the third quarter of 2005.
Samsung Electronics and Toshiba are aggressively planning to ramp up their output of 8Gbit NAND flash chips, as Apple Computer plans to roll out 2GB and 4GB versions of its iPod Shuffle this June and August, respectively, according to sources at NAND flash makers.
Network equipment maker AboCom Systems will showcase its latest WiFi devices, including the HGW810 router and its WR-201 wireless AP sound card as well as its BSH203 Bluetooth stereo headset at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2005 (May 31-June 4), according to company sources.
Billion Electric, a network equipment maker from Taiwan, will introduce three new voice-over IP (VoIP) ADSL 2+ routers, the BiPAC 7402VL series, at Computex Taipei 2005 (May 31-Jun 4).
AOpen is set to release its i915GA-HFS motherboard, which although based on Intel’s 915G desktop chipset, will support Pentium M CPUs, according to sources at the company. The motherboard will be released later this month, with volume shipments coming in the beginning of June.
Nvidia will unveil its next-generation flagship chip, the SLI-supporting G70 graphics chip, at the Computex Taipei 2005 show from May 31 to June 4, according to motherboard makers in Taiwan.
Raritan Computer, a provider of solutions for managing IT infrastructure equipment and the mission-critical applications and services that run on it, will be demonstrating its newest enterprise-class IT management offerings based on remote KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) and serial console server technologies at Computex Taipei 2005, from May 31 to June 4, 2005.
Small-form-factor (SFF) barebones system suppliers Shuttle and AOpen reported their financial results for the first quarter, with Shuttle recording a profit and earnings per share (EPS) of NT$0.11 while AOpen suffered a slight loss of NT$0.11 per share.
