Coronavirus
When it comes to technology tradeshows, one of the biggest early victims of the coronavirus outbreak was Computex, the annual PC-centric trade show in Taiwan. After the 2020 show was delayed and then canceled entirely, event organizer TAITRA vowed to come back with a proper tradeshow in 2021. However, even with vaccinations well underway, it’s become clear that it’s not going to be possible to hold the physical show this year either. As a result, the physical Computex tradeshow has once again been cancelled. In a very brief news release, TAITRA noted that with the pandemic still ongoing, and border controls preventing international travel, it would not be possible to hold the show in 2021. With another wave of coronavirus pandemic across the world, it doesn't...
CES 2021: Physical Event Cancelled, Moves to All-Digital Format
As the world continues to battle on with SARS-CoV-2, large public events and especially trade shows were cancelled one after another for 2020. Large computing shows such as Computex...
14 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/28/2020
Computex 2020 Cancelled; Coming Back In 2021
After a protracted battle with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, this year’s Computex trade show has finally succumbed to the pathogen. One of the world’s largest IT trade shows – and frequently...
36 by Ryan Smith on 6/12/2020
NVIDIA's GTC 2020 Keynote Is Back On: To Be Broadcast on May 14th
After becoming the victim of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus not once but twice, NVIDIA’s GTC 2020 keynote address has finally been rescheduled. The virtual keynote is now set to be...
34 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2020
Victory Lap: Team AnandTech Fights COVID, Beats Tom’s Hardware in Folding Race
Just under a month ago, I put out the call: AnandTech's readers were needed once more to defend the honor of the site in the most nerdy of contests...
21 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2020
Folding@Home Coronavirus Race, AnandTech vs. Tom’s Hardware: Two Week Check-In
As many of us are stuck at home these days and are slowly quickly going mad, a couple of weeks ago we kicked off a race of sorts with...
40 by Ryan Smith on 4/3/2020
PowerColor Extends Product Warranty by Three Months Due to Coronavirus
PowerColor this week has announced that it is extending its warranties to existing customers by three months. The second manufacturer this month to extend its existing prodcut warranties, PowerColor...
67 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/27/2020
Folding@Home Reaches Exascale: 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 Operations Per Second for COVID-19
Folding@home has announced that cumulative compute performance of systems participating in the project has exceeded 1.5 ExaFLOPS, or 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. The level of performance currently...
72 by Anton Shilov on 3/26/2020
IBM & Partners to Fight COVID-19 with Supercomputers, Forms COVID-19 HPC Consortium
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted multiple business events as well as high-tech product launches in the recent months and has all the...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/24/2020
Computex 2020 Moved to September In Response to Coronavirus Pandemic
Over the past month and a half, we’ve written about several technology industry trade shows that had been radically transformed, virtualized, or outright canceled due to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2...
30 by Ryan Smith on 3/24/2020
Help Fight COVID-19 and Tom's Hardware: Join The Great Folding@Home Coronavirus Race
Stuck at home for the foreseeable future, we here at AnandTech are doing the only thing that we can do: getting into trouble and picking fights. And we want...
61 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2020
Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
Update (03/16/2020): What a difference a week makes. Citing the latest developments in the now coronavirus pandemic, NVIDIA has altered its GTC plans once again. The company is now...
26 by Ryan Smith on 3/16/2020
Apple’s WWDC Confirmed For June; Becomes Latest Conference To Go Digital-Only Due to Coronavirus
In a busy week for SARS-CoV-2-related developments, the virus has caused yet another major industry conference to change their plans. Today Apple has announced that the company’s annual World...
2 by Ryan Smith on 3/13/2020
MSI Extends Product Warranties by Two Months Due to Coronavirus
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has already caused the cancellation several major trade shows and will have other kinds of impacts on the high-tech industry. And while the...
3 by Anton Shilov on 3/11/2020
NVIDIA's 2020 GTC Becomes Latest Coronavirus Event Casualty: Now Digital-Only
Following the ongoing saga of technology event cancelations into March and beyond, NVIDIA has now become the latest event host to cancel or substantially alter a planned event due...
16 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2020
GDC & Open Compute Project Global Summit Latest Events Scrubbed Due to Coronavirus
Following the ongoing global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there has been ongoing pressure on event organizers from both attendees and local groups to curtail or cancel events out...
20 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2020
Mobile World Congress 2020 Cancelled
In the light of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak, GSMA has decided to cancel its upcoming Mobile World Congress 2020 trade show that was scheduled for late February. Over the...
13 by Anton Shilov on 2/12/2020
Computex 2020: Still on Schedule Despite Coronavirus, But Other Events Have Restrictions
Update 6/12: Computex 2020 has now officially been cancelled. The show will return for its regular run in June of 2021. Update 3/24: Computex 2020 has now officially been postponed...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/4/2020
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