Digit-Life heeft een lijst met vragen gesteld aan moederbordmakers AOpen en Gigabyte. Het gaat natuurlijk vooral over wat we de komende tijd kunnen verwachten, zo hebben ze het bijvoorbeeld over de Pentium 4, nVidia Crush en NV20. Ook gaat het over de bedrijfsresultaten en wordt naar de mening van de fabrikanten gevraagd over zaken als pc-on-a-chip:
Q: Intel is going to release P4 processor and in a quarter will change its form-factor (0.13 micron Northwood). What do you think of it? What does AOPEN plan for P4?
AOpen: We will be very aggressive to develop Pentium 4 MB. We plan to launch P4 Willamette and Northwood platform MB. I think Intel will strongly to promote P4 in 2001.
GigaByte: We will ship current P4 board, and transfer to socket 478 in Q3. We think it is painful, and will impact the sales of the P4. We are shipping P4 board now, will ramp up the volume in Q1 '01
Q: What do you think about NVIDIA (Crush) and ATI (ArtX2) future integrated chipsets? What about price/performance balance of these solutions? Will these announcements change market shares of other chipset companies?
AOpen: Crush and ArtX2 chipsets still need long time to be tuned. I don't think it will affect chipset companies too much. Their market share will be very limited.
GigaByte: Both of them are at the same position in the VGA chips market. NVIDIA is suitable for add-on card market, and ATI is suitable for notebook market.
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