I have been loading up on OPTI shares of late-- I look for some good news in the coming months-- The Vendetta shoud get some design wins-- I found this excerpt about Intel and OPTI-- If you would call the company and tell them to buy back shares-- While Intel struggles to get its AGP chip set off the ground, alternative
chip-set suppliers are quietly getting ready to challenge Intel's
dominance in core logic. Opti Inc. and VIA Technologies Inc. said they
are planning to introduce their own versions of AGP by the end of the
year.
"We already have a Pentium Pro chip set and are working on a
follow-on," said Don Clegg, director of core-logic marketing for Opti,
Milpitas, Calif.
Other sources close to Opti said the company next year will roll out a
chip set similar to the 440BX, which is Intel's next-generation core-logic
product after the 440LX. It will come in a 352-pin and 208-pin BGA,
and will support the Universal Serial Bus, Ultra direct-memory
access/33 (Ultra/33), SDRAMs, and other features.
Recently there was some confusion in the industry over whether
third-party chip-set companies could make core logic for the Pentium II
because it uses a proprietary, dual-independent bus. But an Intel
spokesman said the core logic connects to the system bus, and therefore
other chip vendors are free to compete with Intel.
While the competitive pressures on Intel mount, the company has yet to
introduce a reference design that will allow PC makers to build
dual-processor Pentium II systems. One source that buys from Intel said
the Pentium II generates 15 A, double the fastest MMX processors.
"Fifteen amps is a lot of power to suck across a motherboard," a source
said. "There are plenty of Pentium IIs, but there are few, if any, duals
ready."
Intel is now distributing a program called K-Power that tests a
motherboard's thermal characteristics when running two Pentium IIs.
"I know as you get to multiprocessor, the Pentium Pro is a better
solution than Pentium II," the Intel spokesman said. "At the end of the
year, you should see multiple configurations that use Pentium II." |
