Jim,
It seems, AOPEN had a change of heart in supporting Athlon.
AOpen will market an Athlon board based on new VIA K7 chipset in November?
Check this post for more @ jc-news.com __________
AMD Athlon Chipsets:
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Following is copied from JC's re-post of AMD chipset road-map, apparently shown by Hotchips to one of its customers (text added by me is shown in Italic).
Die Size
Chip Version Tech & Voltage Max Core Speed (pad Limited) pins
1) SDRAM, 1P 0.35 micron 100 MHz 107mm^2 492
2X AGP 3.3V <--- AMD751 - Northbridge(System Controller)
2) SDRAM, 2P 0.35 micron 100MHz 130mm^2 656
2X AGP 3.3V <--- SMP chip - Dual Athlons for Servers?
3) DDR, 1P 0.25 micron 133MHz 133mm^2 553
4X AGP 2.5V <--- AMD760?
4) DDR, 2P 0.25 micron 133MHz
4X AGP 2.5V <--- SMP - dual Athlons for Workstations?
5) RDRAM, 1P 0.25 micron 133 MHz 107mm^2 492
4X AGP 2.5V <--- Depends on RDRAM success?
According to the info given to JC, the chipset # 3 (AMD 760) may come out towards the end of Q1'00, and the #2 chipset is expected to come out in Q2'00. Note that, #2 chipset is a SMP chipset. But, based on the news we heard, that Dual Athlon boards will be shown at Comdex, and Kryotech plans to come out with a dual Athlon system in Q1'00, etc., the #2 chipset may show up earlier than Q2'00.
Also, to Mani's question many posts ago about chipset on Kryotech Dual Athlon Board -- the answer may be the chipset #2.
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