NVIDIA and Intel

NVIDIA

Well I was expecting NVIDIA to be showing off some of their video cards, but instead they were showing their 3D Vision as well as ION and Tegra platforms at Blizzcon this year.

Here some gamers are enjoying World of Warcraft in NVIDIA's 3D Vision.

NVIDIA also allowed you to have your photo taken in 3D with these lovely ladies.

These Mobinnova smartbooks are actually based on NVIDIA's Tegra platform (I was told these were running the Tegra 650), here they were showing off full Flash acceleration in Windows CE.

NVIDIA managed to get their hands on a prototype of Microsoft's Zune HD, which is built on the Tegra APX platform. I wasn't allowed to touch it, but an NVIDIA representative was happy to show it off. It played some 720p video wonderfully. I was disappointed to learn that NVIDIA didn't have any plans for any applications for the Zune HD to show off their hardware (a game would go a long way on the Zune HD to prove what your Tegra can do guys).

Intel

Over at the Intel booth, Intel was showing off their Core i7 systems as well as their upcoming Core i5 systems. I had a nice talk with Martin Leslie from Intel, he's on the server side of things so he was quite proud talking of QPI, the large increase in bandwidth has allowed Intel to retake several of the server benchmarks that they had previously lost to AMD.