With ATI focused on AMD, new opportunities seen for VIA and SiS
Taiwan-based chipset vendors VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) are expected to benefit from ATI’s rumored decision to cut down chipset developments for the Intel platform, sources at Taiwan motherboard makers indicated. If the rumor is true, the two vendors will get some space in the entry-level integrated chipset market to be filled with their solutions, according to the sources.
ATI now has a right to develop chipsets for Intel Core-based processors featuring a 1066MHz FSB, the sources indicated. However, after revising ATI’s latest roadmap, the sources found that ATI will maybe not support any Intel’s desktop CPU with its new chipsets, beyond the RC610 chipset scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2007. Drawing a parallel to the post-takeover story of ULi Electronics, with its southbridges utilized together with ATI’s northbridges in motherboards for the Intel Pentium 4, the sources expressed an opinion that ATI may also break its earlier commitments.
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