Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

FIC - The Wireless Future

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Moving on to the FIC suite, we were able to see some interesting motherboards as well as video cards. The first board that they introduced to us was the AT31, which uses the new ATI A3 chipset. A heavily delayed product, the A3 features an integrated RV200 core (we couldn't get official confirmation on this) and can use either an ALi or VIA South Bridge. The board is for AMD Socket-A processors including the Athlon XP and it features two DDR DIMM slots. Unlike NVIDIA's nForce the platform does not implement any particularly powerful audio codecs nor does it have a 128-bit DDR memory interface; just the standard 64-bit DDR solution is present here.

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FIC will also be releasing the VC15 and VC35 soon, which are DDR 845 implementations.

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Another DDR platform for the Pentium 4 is the VI35, which uses the SiS 645 chipset.

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The AN11 uses the KT266A chipset and it also has an integrated Promise RAID controller.