Richard; hope this post from Aces Hardware originally submitted by Milo on the mod thread answers your query. Also..I believe you will find something of interest at the same site after Wednesday of this week.. but I wont say for sure since I'm under self imposed "NDA" and I dont wish to steal the good fellows who run Aces Hardware of their thunder.
DDR Chipsets/Motherboards In October (HARDWARE).
Posted By Brian Neal
Tuesday, September 5, 2000 - 4:46:33 AM
A huge thanks to KH for letting me know about this Ctech Taiwan article regarding DDR SDRAM platform development by AMD, VIA, and ALI. The article includes some major news regarding production schedules and roadmaps for DDR chipsets and motherboards, here are the highlights:
DDR chipsets for the AMD platform are starting to ship this month. Volume production of DDR chipsets from AMD, VIA, and ALI will start around end of September, beginning in October
Currently AMD's DDR chipset leads the other two in terms of production: Gigabyte will release a DDR board in October based on AMD's DDR chipset
AMD is giving ALI technology transfer to help ALI in DDR K7 chipset. ALI will release DDR chipset for K7 first, in "limited quantities" by October, and an Intel DDR version will follow later
VIA, on the other hand, will release an Intel DDR chipset first, with the Athlon DDR chipset to follow about a month later
Gigabyte, Asus, and MSI will all have DDR boards out in October. As you can see, Gigabyte is expected to have an Athlon DDR (AMD-760 based) motherboard sometime in October. ALI is the other core logic producer expected to have a chipset (in "limited quantities" anyway) that same month, while VIA will initially focus on a DDR version of its Apollo Pro GTL+/P6 chipset.
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