ATI takes on Via, Nvidia on chipsets

We have some more information about ATI's future chipsets. These are ATI's response to the move to PCI Express, and will compete with Nforce 4 standard and Ultra and Via's K8T890 chipset. Radeon Xpress 200 G and non G will support all socket Athlon 64/FX and Opteron CPUs, dual channel memory, PCIe 16X + four PCIe 1X slots, PCI slots, eight USB ports, AC 97 audio, four S-ATA drives, two parallel ports and Raid 0 and 1. As you notice, it doesn't have any LAN support even though Nvidia and Via do support this feature.

So ATI has two chipsets on the way - one with integrated graphic and one without. At least for a time, ATI will remain alone in the integrated PCIe area and its chipset will provide quite powerful graphic power, for a chipset of course. It is based on RV370, X300 core and it will use UMA (unified memory architecture).

More info at The Inquirer