Ali chipset info
I thought this was already posted here but I guess not.
PB posted this link at the Intel thread -
byte.com
"It's also very interesting to note that two of the
chip sets prominent manufacturer Acer
Laboratories has on its road map "support Direct
Rambus DRAM," its customers say. Both the
high-end Aladdin K7 II and III will support
AMD's forthcoming K7 microprocessor.
In the hierarchy one customer presented, the
Aladdin K7 I will ship in the third quarter, with
100-MHz frontside bus support for PC133
SDRAM. By the third quarter of 2000, the
customer said, the Aladdin K7 III would replace,
not complement, the K7 I with a 133-MHz
frontside bus and Direct RDRAM support. Acer
Labs' Aladdin Pro III for the Pentium II and III
reportedly includes PC133 support, but the
company is still awaiting a P6 bus license from
Intel.
According to Dirk Meyer, vice-president of
engineering within AMD's Computational
Products Group, AMD will not initially support
Rambus in its supporting K7 chip sets, but plans
to later.
Meanwhile, information surrounding chip set
maker Via Technologies' K7 plans is not known,
but the Apollo Pro II, scheduled after the first
year, includes support for a "new DRAM
technology" which might be Direct RDRAM.
Will Via support PC133 SDRAM? It would like
to, but as Forbes first pointed out, Intel sent a
letter to its customers advising them that its
PC133 SDRAM chip set, the Apollo Pro133,
isn't covered under Intel's patent license. That
followed a patent-infringement lawsuit against
Via that Intel said it filed in error. Via
executives
were more suspicious. Since Intel won't let Via
ship the Pro133 for now, Via's PC133 plans have
been put on hold."
I had always thought Via would be only chipset in Q3. |
