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To: Tony Viola who wrote (107301)	8/10/2000 2:27:21 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"Is SiS the 760 chipset? Who is SiS, anyway?" No, the 760 is AMDs next Athlon chipset (133-266Mhz bus support). SiS, is "Silicon Integrated Solutions or Systems" or some such nomer, a Taiwan based chip maker...they make chipsets. The SiS chipset I'm thinking of is a low end integrated chipset for (Roberto)Duran and Thunderbird...sound and video inc.. This will compete with i815 and Timna if we ever see it. Maybe they have something else or this would work well in server situations...since sound and video performance might not be that important. Jim

To: Tony Viola who wrote (107301)	8/10/2000 2:30:57 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Well, what's the prognosis for AMD in that regard? Is SiS the 760 chipset? SiS isn't the 760. You can check out SiS at their home page: sis.com.tw where they are featuring the 730. SiS has been ramping a new FAB that supposedly will be dedicated to the 730 and its socket 370 counterpart, the 630. Considering that AMD outsources its chipset fabrication, as do Via and (I think) Ali, there will only be two companies FABing their own chipsets this year: Intel and SiS. SiS is making a pretty big bet on the 730/630, but it looks like a nice chip. It is not a performance chip, so it may be Ali's chip or the 760MP this is most often used in servers, but look at the features on one piece of silicon (unlike the typical 2 chip north and south bridge, the 630/730 has all of this on one chip) Support all AMD Athlon™ / AMD Duron™ processors synchronous and asynchronous front side bus frequency Support PC133, 3 DIMM slots and up to 1.5 GB main memory Stand alone AGP 4x graphic card slot Built-in 128 bit 2D/3D graphic chip with SFB (Shared Frame Buffer) architecture and display memory size up to 64MB with 1920*1200 resolution supported ATA-100 IDE Private IDE-to-MEM bus¡Atransfer rate up to132 MB/s Support 6 OpenHCI USB ports Flexible dual view application such as TV-Out, digital flat panel and secondary CRT with the SiS301 chip Support 3D VR (Virtual Reality) with 3D stereoscopic glasses Built-in H/W DVD accelerator engine Built-in 3D positional audio Flexible connectivity including 56K Modem, 10/100 Mb Fast Ethernet, and 1/10Mb Home PNA Microsoft PC99A, ACPI compliant A board for Celeron, Duron, P3, or Thunderbird using this chip should cost well under $100 including sound, video, network, modem, hardware DVD, and ATA-100. This may be one of the reasons Intel seems to have lost enthusiasm for Timna. What would you expect a Timna based board with this feature set to cost? Dan