SiS to launch PCI Express AMD chipsets in November

Posted on Wednesday, October 06 2004 @ 13:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
SiS will launch a few PCI Express chipsets in November for the AMD K8 platform.
SiS claims it ranks second in market share in both the Intel and AMD chipset market, and its goal is to become the number-one producer of AMD chipsets. Currently, VIA is the market leader in the AMD segment.

In September, SiS announced that NEC and Hewlett-Packard (HP) would market AMD K8 products featuring the company’s chipsets. Both HP and NEC will bundle the integrated SiS760 with their consumer PCs.

According to the company, its revenues are expected to grow 10% sequentially in September due to increased sales of K8 chipsets to PC OEMs.
SiS will start mass production of the PCI Express 761 Northbridge in November. The 761GS, a chip with integrated graphics, will follow in Q1 2005. The company will also launch two more integrated chips in Q2 2005, the 770 and 756 FX, with mass production coming in Q3 2005.
The 761GX and 756FX will feature SiS’ Mirage1 graphics, which support DirectX7, while the 770 will use the Mirage3 core, which supports DirectX9.

According to SiS, the 756FX will also support two PCIe express graphics cards. In addition to supporting Nvidia’s SLI (scalable link interface) solution, SiS claims it is developing a part that will support ATI PCIe cards.

SiS will partner its PCIe north bridges with the 965 I/O controller. The 965 features two PCIe x1 lanes, integrated RAID and Gigabit Ethernet, and supports four SATA ports.

SiS’ November launch of its PCIe chipsets will come one month after VIA begins volume production of its VIA K8T890 chipset. Nvidia and ATI are also expected to release PCIe chipsets for the AMD platform in the fourth quarter.
Source: DigiTimes


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