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Motherboards with Intel's DDR chip set to ship in December
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Major motherboard makers will debut their designs based on Intel Corp.'s forthcoming double-data-rate DRAM chip set next month at Comdex Fall 2001 in Las Vegas and should have products on the shelf a few weeks before Christmas.

Intel is set to officially release the next-generation chip set for the Pentium 4 in January, giving the processor a much better performance companion than the current single-data-rate i845 chip set. Asustek Computer Inc. and Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. will run performance tests on boards incorporating the upcoming i845D chip set, but will do so in hotel suites and not on the floor of the show. Other motherboard makers, such as Microstar International Co. Ltd. and Elitegroup Computer Systems Co. Ltd., are expected to do the same, according to industry sources.

Taiwan's main motherboard makers all have designs ready — or nearly ready — for Intel's follow-on chip set, and have been waiting for the chip maker to give a clearer indication of when an announcement will occur. "I'm sure they're going to announce something at Comdex," said a source at Asustek. "But boards won't be sold until December. It's only a little bit ahead of before. They have to do it to be competitive."

Intel's primary competitor in the chip set business, Taiwan-based Via Technologies Inc., started shipping double-data-rate chip sets in volume in October. However, the going's been tough for Via's product — the P4x266 — because the company doesn't have a licensing agreement with Intel, so most motherboard companies are shunning the chip set. Intel and Via are currently locked in a court battle over patent infringements.

Meanwhile, chip set maker Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. is expected to ramp up production of its double-data-rate offering in November. While SiS does compete with Intel, its products are more closely targeted at the value PC segment, which Via has dominated the past two years. Early reviews of its SiS645, which integrates a 256-bit graphics engine, have been favorable and Asustek is expected to favor the SiS chip set over Via's offering.






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