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Asus: In the Eee PC Asus has a license to print money and the sight of the much anticipated 8.9in edition was all it needed to do to generate yet more publicity. With more memory, a larger and higher resolution screen, Windows XP and the as yet unconfirmed potential of using Intel's Atom platform, it seems likely that this already great proposition is about to get a whole lot better.

Asus' only real worry is the potential for competition. After the Eee PC's great success every man and his dog seems intent on chipping into the market, with several different takes on the concept appearing in recent months and more on the way. It's going to get pretty crowded, but Asus is certainly doing enough to hold off the copycats for now.

The Drawers

Intel: Okay, this was supposed to be Winners & Losers, but sometimes things aren't as straightforward as that. Intel had a pretty solid show, timing its official announcement of the Atom platform for sub-notebooks/Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to coincide with the show, though this was really just putting a name to something that was already common knowledge.

Otherwise, things were pretty quiet. There were sightings of new chipsets but for the most part these were incremental upgrades, hardly anything to get really excited about. Having already done enough to impose its dominance this year, CeBIT passed with little in the way of revelations.

nVidia: Much like Intel, nVidia didn't do anything particularly wrong, but given its current position of strength it had little to prove. Sightings of the soon to be released 9800GX2 provided some talking points, but with NDAs firmly in place little real info was on hand.

The Losers

Patent Infringers: While the majority of exhibitors could sleep safely in their beds, some weren't so fortunate. German police raided 51 booths at the show due in large part to infringements of patents pertaining to MP3 compression technology. Predictably, companies from China and Taiwan were the main offenders, though there were a smattering of those from South Korea and even Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. The patent complaints were filed by Italian company Sisvel on behalf of the likes of Philips and France Telecom, with 180 officers involved in the raids. Most infamous among the victims was Meizu, known for its extensive range of Apple rip-offs. So, remember kids, patent infringement is a serious crime!

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