Consumer Electronics Show 2004 Day 1: Motherboards at CES
by Anand Lal Shimpi, Kris Kubicki and Wesley Fink on January 9, 2004 4:48 AM EST- Posted in
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ASUS expects to launch seven new motherboards over the first quarter, including a SiS 755 motherboard. ECS is now also shipping Revision A2 of its SiS 755 board with improvements to performance compared to the A revision. ASUS is large enough to ship almost every chipset, so we expect to see Socket 939 boards from them based on VIA, nForce3 250 and SiS 755FX. 755FX has not received nearly as much attention as nForce3 250, but it is still an exciting new chipset. While SiS 755 is designed for single channel Socket 754, the SiS 755FX will exclusively support the new Socket 939 and dual channel unbuffered memory.
With the recent introduction of the SiS 655TX for Intel, and roadmaps with 755/755FX SiS appears to have reestablished a place in the core logic market. Several roadmaps we saw also included IGP versions of these chipsets.
There are other big surprises with chipset manufacturers. ATI has confirmed production of an AMD Athlon 64 core logic; NVIDIA is also rumored to have an Intel chipset in the works. With both ATI and NVIDIA producing both AMD and Intel chipsets, we will now have five major chipset manufacturers (six if you include ALi).
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Idoxash - Monday, January 12, 2004 - link
Wow, I think that "Mobile Athlon XP" computer by FIC is crazily kewl looking. I like to know more about it and such.--Idoxash
JADS - Monday, January 12, 2004 - link
Still no dual CPU enthusiast boards. Could be a good reason for the FX staying around if one of the HT links was re-enabled.sandorski - Saturday, January 10, 2004 - link
Don't worry, it'll become an issue in time. ;)mrprotagonist - Friday, January 9, 2004 - link
Can't believe that the nvidia/AMD/Intel fanboys didn't catch this snippet on page 4:"ATI has confirmed production of an AMD Athlon 64 core logic; NVIDIA is rumored to also have an Intel chipset in the works. With both ATI and NVIDIA producing both AMD and Intel chipsets, we will now have five major chipset manufacturers (six if you include ALi)."
klah - Friday, January 9, 2004 - link
JRun Connector Protocol Error.ehanneken - Friday, January 9, 2004 - link
Does the FIC small form factor PC that opens up like a Mac have an AGP slot?Evan Lieb - Friday, January 9, 2004 - link
Good job guys. Too bad I couldn't go. :)Tracy-Computer Franchise - Friday, July 27, 2012 - link
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