Ace's Hardware schrijft dat Acer Labs Inc. volgens een artikel van PC Week Taiwan VIA vervangt als de chipset partner van AMD. Door de problemen met de i820 chipset heeft de ontwikkeling en produktie van P6 chipsets momenteel de hoogste prioriteit voor VIA, waardoor de produktie van Athlon chipsets in het gedrang komt. Bovendien is VIA na de aankoop van Cyrix ook zelf processor fabrikant en daarmee een directe concurrent van AMD. Verwacht wordt dat ALI in juni een Athlon chipset zal aankondigen. Deze zal als eerst ondersteuning bieden voor DDR SDRAM:
Anyway, the bit from PC Week Taiwan that attracts my attention is the comment that ALI will replace VIA as AMD's major Athlon chipset partner in near future. Rumors have it that the relationship between VIA and AMD started deteriorating since VIA started its own CPU venture. VIA is also reportedly having trouble with its Socket-A product, even though VIA has been publicly saying that it can start mass producing Socket-A chipsets in June or July this year. Also the popularity of Athlon has been somewhat limited by the limited number of KX133 chipsets available. With Intel riding Rambust through one technical road bump after another, it is only understandable that VIA would focus its production mainly on the Apollo Pro 133A chipset. As such, it is speculated that AMD will find a stronger alliance in ALI for the months to come. Evidently AMD's upcoming mobile processors will be paired with ALI's chipset, not VIA's according to PC Week.
Thanks DiGiSTORM voor de tip.
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