Missing inhouse support for their processors by a competitive core logic has always been an Achilles heel for AMD, even though, in the last minute, the one or the other chipset manufacturer came to the rescue. Among others, VIA Technologies stepped up to lay the foundation for AMD's climb to success - but those days are long gone. nVidia's crush to fame in the chipset arena was more a symbiotic relationship with AMD - forced by a lack of licensing agreements with Intel - among other issues. All this is about to change, the current season of desperate chipwives dishes up ATI's merger with AMD to open the doors for an intimate relationship between processor and chipset under the same corporate umbrella.



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