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To: Elmer who wrote (54229)	4/5/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573824

Elmer, Sure it would be but who's going to do it? A chipset vendor who wants to provide a better product than Whitney. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (54229)	4/5/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1573824

RE:"Sure it would be but who's going to do it?" Depends on how much it costs... SLOKETS cost about $12, For say $50 it would be economically viable if performance warranted it... Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (54229)	4/6/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1573824

Elmer, Sure it would be but who's going to do it? How about this one? Chipset company Via and graphics company S3 confirmed today they had set up a strategic alliance. Both will work together to produce integrated chipsets for both AMD and Intel microprocessors. The first fruits of alliance are expected to arrive in the second half of this year aimed at both mainstream and low end PCs market. According to S3 and Via, their solution will provide "substantial performance improvements and cost savings". Via has become increasingly aggressive towards Intel, which also produces chipsets. Last week, we saw the first chipset to support the PC-133 memory standard, a standard that Intel has repeated again and again it will not support. theregister.co.uk Scumbria