Hi Dave B; In response to my post which included: Re Micron stepping back out of DDR chipset
business... This isn't much of a surprise,, you wrote:
"That wasn't what you said in message #43555 when you counted up the number of DDR
chipsets coming out."
Here's what I did write: (#reply-13833764)
I had 14 chipsets, but I left off the AMD 770. Adding that in, and subtracting the
Micron Samurai still leaves 14 DDR chipsets:
New New list of DDR chipsets in development:
DDR Chipset Processor Date Remarks
------ ------- ----------- ---- ----------------
VIA PRO266 Pentium III 3Q00 Production, multiprocessor
VIA PX266 Pentium III 4Q00 Samples
VIA PM266 Pentium III 4Q00 Samples, integrated solution
VIA KX266 Athlon 0800 Samples
VIA KM266 Athlon 0101 Samples, integrated solution
VIA Apollo Cyrix III 2H00 Proprietary CPU
AMD 760 Athlon 4Q00 Thunderbird, Mustang
AMD 770 Athlon 4Q00 Thunderbird, Mustang, dual processor
ALi Aladdin Athlon 3Q00 Demo June 2000?
ALi Aladdin Pentium III 4Q00 First to market?
Intel ???? Pentium IV 1H01 For servers, w/ServerWorks
ServerWorks SS IV Pentium IV 2001 PC200
SiS M1647 Pentium III 1H01 Mass production by 093000
SiS ??? Athlon 1H01 Rumors only?
The above list is clearly way too many for a volume dependant high end chipset market. I
would expect that more chips are going to continue to drop out of competition, (and more
chips to show up with later delivery dates.) In addition, I have undoubtedly left some
players out.
What exactly do you mean to imply with you comment "that wasn't what you said"? Do you want
me to be psychic in my predictions as to what the next chipsets to be dropped are? Some
of these chipsets are going to be late. Do you expect me to tell you in advance which ones?
These are pretty high standards you are holding me too.
Count the number above and compare it to the number of RDRAM chipsets for PCs currently
in development. DDR won. RDRAM lost. The story for the 2001 PC market is over.
-- Carl |
