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

To: Joe NYC who wrote (110716)	5/13/2000 11:20:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1574954

Joe, Dr. Tom really took off on Intel again in that one. But I don't think the mobo makers needed the latest Caminogate fiasco to bring home to them Intel's reliability, when Intel has publicly announced that they plan to be shipping 80% of the mobos to go with their processors by the end of the year. In other news of the day, Acer Labs is supposed to have a DDR chipset on tap: Acer Labs Inc (ALI) will unveil a new chipset to support for AMD Athlon chipset at Computex Taiwan. This chipset can support both Slot A and Socket A as well as DDR. After VIA KX133 chipset and also KZ133 chipset to be unveiled soon, ALI will also soon unveil their new chipset during June at Computex and estimated to be on sale at Q3. This chipset can support the present Slot A Athlon, Socket A Duron and Thunderbird CPUs. This chipset can support C-133 and AGP 4X as well. For more special features, this chipset can support next generation DDR 266 and will be the only chipset now to support this feature. As for VIA, the chipset to support DDR 266, the KZ266 can only wait till September to be released. Therefore, AMD 760 chipset to support DDR can only be available in September. SIS too also going to unveil their new chipset, the SIS 730 which can support ATA-100 but not DDR. vr-zone.com I think the Ali chipsets have a somewhat better reputation than Via, but they never beat the BX either. Still, with so many companies in the hunt (AMD, Micron, Ali, Via, SiS), SOMEBODY ought to come up with something decent. Except for the strange case of Via, I don't imagine any of those will be doing much to give Intel any backup in case their next generation ram-bs plans run into a glitch or two. Cheers, Dan.