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

To: kash johal who wrote (109272)	5/3/2000 10:43:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1579312

Kash, The current AMD chipsets have always been built at UMC and future ones too as well as far as I know. Thanks, I didn't know that Joe

To: kash johal who wrote (109272)	5/3/2000 11:36:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1579312

But regardless they should have an inhouse chipset program to maintain control of quality, availability and margins. Aside from that, it's not clear if anybody can be trusted to make a decent chipset. Intel's competition there seemed to always come up short of late. None of Via, SiS, or Ali ever really came close to the BX. Mercifully, Intel has come up short lately too on that front. Chipsets, particularly the north bridge memory controller, seems to be sort of a black art, and if cost of pins is such a big deal, making 500 pin packages that sell for $30 or so can't be a particularly high margin business. I'd still like to see Nvidia do something like the X-box integrated graphics/memory controller for Athlon. The specs sounded good anyway. I hope they're not contractually hamstrung, they seemed to be sounding cool with AMD with the last announcement anyway. Cheers, Dan.