AMD still refusing to have a chipset business

From the inquirer:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12576

"The 9XX socket, whatever that turns out to be, will support
533/666MHz memory controllers, as well as supporting Hyperthreading
1.05 and Retry 2.4K/2.8K MTs AMD has at least three chipset partners
it's relying on to support its future processors. The roadmap shows
that it will still introduce reference designs for future chipsets,
but it is essentially relying on the usual suspects to help support
its microprocessors."

"The usual suspects in this case are Via, SIS, Nvidia and, can we
count ATI as a future usual suspect? The documents refer to chipset
firms A, B, and C â and X. X isn't IBM is it?"

Maybe the Nvidia will be good enough*, but I would feel more secure
if AMD had their own boards with their own chipsets like Intel does.

* the new version of the Nforce 3 with Gigabit Ethernet, seems
to appear (early ?) next year:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12566

"As a fact, we know that Nforce 3 250 -- the one with full speed
Hypetransport 16 uplink and 16 downlink with native Gigabit LAN is
still not in production but it isn't so far away."

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"Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro" <rps.RemoveThis@rena.mat.uc.pt> wrote in message
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 > From the inquirer:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12576</font" target="_blank">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12576</font</a>>
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 > "The 9XX socket, whatever that turns out to be, will support
 > 533/666MHz memory controllers, as well as supporting Hyperthreading
 > 1.05

As the Inq has now corrected it, it is Hypertransport 1.05.

Shame as hyperthreading is the only feature of the Pentium that interests
me, would love to see it on AMD processors.

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