Christian Zielinski wees ons op dit bericht van The Register, waarin de Intel vice-president Anand Chandrasekher praat over de benchmarks die VIA op Computex van haar Pentium 4 chipset bekend maakte. Op de beurs beweerde de chipsetbakker dat P4X266 met DDR geheugen ongeveer zeven procent sneller is dan Intel's 850 chipset met RDRAM. Dit getal wordt door de VP als onzin bestempeld. VIA wil haar chipset in het derde kwartaal van dit jaar uitbrengen en de eerste info over de moederborden is ook al binnen. Intel blijft echter stug volhouden dat er geen licentie is verleend. VIA hoopt in de rechtszaal haar gelijk te halen door haar aankoop van S3. Verder was Chandrasekher niet erg positief over de nForce:
That's a reference to the fact Intel has not sanctioned VIA's P4X266 chipset, which promises to connect the P4 to DDR SDRAM ahead of Intel's own DDR-based chipset, the 845, aka Brookdale. VIA contends it has the right to P4 technology thanks to a licence it acquired through the purchase of the graphics division of S3 (not SonicBlue).
[...] Meanwhile, Chandrasekher dismissed Nvidia's AMD-oriented nForce chipset as effectively irrelevant to the markets it's aimed at. "Does it meet the needs of the market? I don't think so," he said.
Nvidia would counter that nForce is aimed at the low-end and corporate markets that Chandrasekher identifies as the key constituencies for integrated chipsets, rather then just the high-end he reckons it's targeting.