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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (68364)	8/11/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579297

<This is clearly a low end chipset. 200MHz FSB on .35u!> No biggie. Clearly VIA's Athlon chipset is using AMD's Irongate as a design reference. The additional features it brings to the Athlon platform (ATA-66, AGP-4x, PC133 SDRAM) isn't going to make a significant difference in its performance. I'm more interested in Athlon chipsets that will either support DRDRAM, or support greater than 2-way multiprocessing. Have you seen the architecture of the HotRail 8-way Athlon chipset? Pretty scalable stuff, even though it's going to be a rather difficult and costly platform to produce. Tenchusatsu