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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (90486)	1/30/2000 12:53:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 1576378

Cirruslvr, that is a really good article covering some other goodies ebns.com (01/28/00, 02:20:50 PM EDT) "Unlike Intel, Huff said the IEEE 1394 serial interface and Universal Serial Bus version 2.0 technology are both on AMD's long-term chipset roadmap, although plans call for the company's partners to develop these technologies. Via, for example, is shipping a 1394 core, although its die size may prohibit it from being used until the next manufacturing generation, according to Dean Hays, director of marketing at Via's U.S. operations in Fremont, Calif. Intel, on the other hand, views USB 2.0 as a superior PC-centric technology and has no plans to integrate 1394 in the foreseeable future, one analyst noted. AMD's chipset team will concentrate on multiprocessor systems, leaving the high-volume, single-processor PC market for chipset partners such as Via, which is using its joint venture with S3 Inc. to drive down the costs of the Athlon platform and increase sales. For now, however, Via has foregone the use of the faster, 266-MHz frontside bus and is concentrating instead on integrating graphics functions. " "Via's Athlon plans, meanwhile, parallel the company's Intel-driven roadmap. Via previously disclosed part of its lineup, including the KX133, a PC133 DRAM-enabled chipset for the Athlon. The Taipei, Taiwan-based company this week also revealed two more chipsets: the low-end VS2-K7, the first Athlon chipset to integrate S3's Savage4 graphics chip; and the VS-12K7, the Athlon equivalent of the VS10-P6. " Thanx Cirrus, Milo