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To: Joe NYC who wrote (42745)6/5/2001 3:35:09 PM
From: ptannerRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Joe & Paul, Re: "Sis is doing this [combining Northbridge & Southbridge on single die] already"

This is the 630/730 integrated chips right (I have one across the room but I don't think I would recognize the Southbridge <g>)? I think I read somewhere that SiS will moving back to a 2-chip solution but I cannot remember why. Perhaps in combination with the graphics the chip was unwieldy for SiS -- a problem which I doubt Intel would have.

-PT



To: Joe NYC who wrote (42745)6/5/2001 4:21:02 PM
From: Paul EngelRespond to of 275872
 
Re: "If all these connections are placed on one (Northbridge + Southbridge) chip, you are talking a nightmare of the chip with thousands of pins."

That's just about what the 760 MP CHip Set has.



To: Joe NYC who wrote (42745)6/5/2001 4:22:44 PM
From: Paul EngelRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Re: "In consumer PCs, NVidia partitioning seems to make the most sense, of combining Northbridge and Graphics seems to be the way to go, since the same memory controller can serve graphics and CPU."

NVIDIA wasn't the first to do this - not by a LONG SHOT !