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To: milo_morai who wrote (115383)	6/11/2000 12:12:00 AM
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Interview With ALi (HARDWARE) Posted By Brian Neal Saturday, June 10, 2000 - 9:05:13 AM A huge thanks goes to Daiki for translating this interview with ALi's Chin Wu at COMPUTEX 2000. The interview details ALi's plans, ranging from their current Aladdin 7 Super 7 chipset all the way to Willamette. Super7 Mr. Wu thinks that Aladdin 7 will be the company's final Super 7 chipset. Aladdin 7 features integrated graphics, but doesn't support a motherboard L2/L3 cache. So far, there has been minimal demand for Aladdin 7. Most OEMs building systems with the Aladdin V chipset aren't planning to deliver any new models based on the K6/Super-7. Athlon Aladdin K7 will be ALi's first Athlon chipset. It consists of the M1647 northbridge, which supports AGP4x and PC266/PC133/PC100 DDR SDRAM. The chipset also has potential for mobile markets, since the M1647 features mobile functions and can be used with ALi's existing southbridges. ALi is planning an Athlon chipset with integrated video, ethernet, and firewire, to be announced during the third-quarter. DDR SDRAM/Rambus ALi is looking to produce P6 chipsets supporting DDR SDRAM, but they will initially only support it on the Athlon platform (Aladdin K7). ALi has a license for Rambus Direct DRAM, but DDR SDRAM is a higher priority at the moment. Willamette ALi plans to support the Willamette (Pentium IV) platform once it spreads to the consumer level, which means sometime during the second half of next year at the earliest. Is this wild or what? ALi will develop a Willamette chipset, and according to Mr. Wu, they believe they will have a Willamette license by that time. Other Mr. Wu says that ALi has no plans to deliver mobile TNT2 chips because the TNT2 is not suitable for mobile systems, though performance is good. On the other hand, he says the ArtX core is suitable for mobile applications. Ali doesn't plan to deliver highly integrated chipsets for products like Timna. >> Discuss this Topic on General: 3 Comments in Thread SMP, DDR SDRAM, 64bit PCI, and Onboard SCSI (HARDWARE) Posted By Brian Neal Saturday, June 10, 2000 - 9:01:34 AM What could this possibly be, you ask? It has all my favorite things in the same sentence! Thanks to Temp for sending me news of this iXBT news post he found linked from this post on SI. According to iXBT, Tyan will be releasing a new Athlon motherboard codenamed Lions around the end of Q3 or in early Q4. This is not just any motherboard, however, Lions is a dual-processor server/workstation motherboard based on the AMD 760MP chipset with PC266 DDR SDRAM, 64-bit PCI, and Ultra160 SCSI. This is the kind of motherboard Athlon enthusiasts have long-awaited. >> Discuss this Topic on General: 5 Comments in Thread Socket A board with ALi DDR chipset (CPU) Posted By johan Saturday, June 10, 2000 - 2:44:01 AM A big thanks to our reader Palm for sending me this picture . It is an ALI DDR 266 based socket A motherboard. You might remember that our own KH was the first to find out about this chipset. : ) >> Discuss this Topic on General: 2 Comments in Thread Milo Source: Ace's