ATI to stop developing Intel chipsets
Says the word from Hong Kong
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 24 August 2006, 15:09
DESPITE CLAIMS that ATI will continue to ship its Intel platform chipsets after its buyout by AMD, it seems that it has changed its mind.
A Hong Kong magazine HKEPC is reporting that ATI has pulled the plug on developing Intel chipsets further.
ATI was authorised to support to the new Core 2 Duo processors so it is likely to be business as usual for the RD600, RD500, RS600, RC410 and RC415 and the soon to be released ATI RC610.
However, HKEPC says that the ATI RC610 will be the last Intel chipset. Other names that appeared on the old roadmap including the RD700, RS700 and RC710 have not made it onto the new one.
While the chip-sets will be around for a long time, it is likely that manufacturers will remember what happened when Nvidia bought ULI. In that case. promises to keep to the roadmap were suddenly dropped.
It is more likely that manufacturers will move away from an ATI-Intel product to avoid any nasty surprises, the HKEPC says.
ATI is currently focused on chipsets for AMD. These include a RS690 (AVIVO + HDMI) and RC690C (AVIVO) in October, RD790 with CrossFire enabled in the middle of next year and a RS790 DirectX 10 supported IGP in summer 2007.
A new ATI IGP product with the catchy codename SC780, which is a unified version of RS690 and SB600, using a 65nm manufacturing process, will hit the shops in summer next year.
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