PT, re: Micron, some recent, contradictory news.
Micron taps Lucent to make Samurai chips techweb.com
But, from the end of quote.bloomberg.com
Micron announced a DDR chipset early this year, but said it would only start production of it if there were no other suppliers. Now that Via and Acer Labs have announced plans, Micron will scrap its DDR chipset.
``We don't want to compete with Via and Acer, who are our partners,'' Sadler said.
They still list themselves for DDR chipsets in micronsemi.com . I was surprised a few months back to learn that Micron offered a PC with their own chipset in an early PII system, it was called Samurai even. See Message 13623310, from this thread. I don't think the Micron PC operation is big enough to support a custom chipset, though. Oddly enough, I'm still running a Micron PPro system, though the pieces are actually scattered among three PC's now. Micron PCs used to have a certain techie cachet, I don't know if that's really true anymore.
Cheers, Dan. |
