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Hi, welcome to CasekingTV to another interview. This time with Mel from Foxconn.
Mel, please give us a short introduction of Foxconn and yourself.
I am Melanie Grunewald from Foxconn, responsible for the channel,
which means caring for distribution, dealers and customers,
Foxconn has one million employees, which makes us the biggest IT manufacturer.
We started with OEM, building for companies like Apple, HP, Fujitsu Siemens
Some years ago we decided to do our own brand, this means behind Foxconn
stands the Hon Hai Group, which is in business since the 70ies,
started with small parts and is doing up to high end right now.
I think many of you know products that were produced by Foxconn,
Today you brought the new P67 chipset based mainboard with you,
long awaited from the Quantum Force series. The predecessors, some of you may know are the Flaming Blade with X58 chipset.
Or the Katana with a P55 chipset. What are the specials on the P67 board ?
Quantum Force is our gaming series in mainboard sector,
The Flaming Blade is a 1366 socket based on X58 chipset,
is a different story, the Inferno Katana was the predecessor, as you said,
of the P67 Quantum Force Rattler, as we call it,
features are a Dual-Bios with 3 bios chipsets, which means one chip is for the firmware
features are a Dual-Bios with 3 bios chipsets, which means on chip is for the firmware
the other two run in dual core. We have an overclocking switch,
Dual Lan, good passive chipset cooling and of course 2xPCIe 16x
for Crossfire and SLI.
I wasn´t sure about SLI, but very nice if it does.
No matter if you use AMD or NVidia, two graphics cards are possible.
Overclocking. With the switch i can change settings in a glance and
can overclock the CPU directly with that ?
Will be interesting for quite some people i think.
So you can set two profiles, e.g. for Windows and one for games.
Shut down the computer, switch the mode and there you go.
What stands out on your gaming mainboards is the price,
While other mainboards cost 250 to 300 Euros up, yours come for 150 - 200 Euro.
How you do the price, i mean you use the same chipsets.
We focus on the basis which an overclocker needs on the Quantum Force series,
so we don´t bundle with games or big accessory,
just the stuff the overclocker needs, so we can lower the price.
This board will also cost around 150 Euro.
That´s the best way we think, good price and less accessory.
Sure, makes sense. Stuff i don´t need for OC and when i´m a gamer
i don´t need some features. Instead Dual Lan and OC features.
Where is Foxconn going ? You started with mainboards and now you also have barebones and nettops.
More Netboxes, less mainboard ? Will the boards be more specialized ?
Our main bussiness is and will be mainboards.
We also try to look for new segments, which we already did with the nettops.
The nettops are for HTPC. We have one Nvidia box, next will be a fusion model.
We want to get into market for small PC like doctors, but also into home entertainment.
We want to expand here and we also have Mini ITX computers.
Chassis and barebone which means case, power supply and board.
Foxconn is expanding there and already building for big brands as Apple. Nothing is impossible.
We will of course have everything at Caseking as soon as it is available.
We are also one of the first seeing the Rattler live. Of course you could already see it at Cebit.
We got it for that interview and have to send it back on monday.
I really try not to send it to my home adress.
Would be nice to have something to play with.
everybody is waiting for USB 3.0 standard,
USB 3.0 can be forund everywhere but still no internal standard to see.
Everybody is wondering they have to get a cable out of the case to the back of the mainboard to connect.
When is it coming ? Do you have any influence ? Also on other products.
Of course Foxconn will use standards as soon as they are available,
because we supply the big ones, Dell, HP, Fujitsu Siemens,
will be the first to build systems with these standards.
Real influence on new technologies, which are not built by us
is quite hard. But be sure, as soon as available, we will have them.
Thank you very much. As you can see even Foxconn is not standard.
Thats true on Caseking. Hope to see you again next time.