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Sabastian
Wistron, FIC adopting ATI’s RS200 core logic and graphics chips
ATI Technologies has landed two more clients, Wistron and First International Computer (FIC), for its Pentium 4-based RS200 (formerly named A4) core logic integrated chipset. Related motherboards from the two Taiwan-based manufacturers will be showcased at CeBIT Hannover.
ATI’s current card-manufacturing partner, CP Technology, will also showcase an RS200-based motherboard at the trade show, but an actual launch schedule will depend on market response.
Sources said that new clients Wistron and FIC plan to further extend their cooperation with ATI to the notebook and PDA (personal digital assistant) sectors as well. The RS200 chipset can be used for notebooks and desktops, plus ATI can further offer a line of graphics chips, for which they are renowned, in handheld devices. In the past few years, ATI has extended its graphics chips to PDAs and mobile phones.
In the graphics chip business, the Canadian company revealed that three more manufacturers have decided to become card-manufacturing partners. They are Taiwanese memory module maker Transcend Information and Hong Kong-based Sapphire Technology and High Tech. Transcend will start manufacturing ATI based-cards at the end of this month.
To expand its graphics chip business, ATI has adopted an open platform strategy – allowing card manufacturers to produce graphics cards based on its chips.
Although it has successfully won orders from major PC makers such as Wistron and FIC, ATI’s core logic chipset business is regarded by the market as risky when considering the stiff competition from veteran core logic chipset designers, like Intel. Graphics card manufacturers said that given its well-known image for graphics technology, and input/output advantage in the RS200’s south bridge, ATI’s chipset may have a better chance in the game console market.
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?IR=N&ClassID=405&datePublish=2002/ 03/08&pages=06&seq=42
Sabastian
Wistron, FIC adopting ATI’s RS200 core logic and graphics chips
ATI Technologies has landed two more clients, Wistron and First International Computer (FIC), for its Pentium 4-based RS200 (formerly named A4) core logic integrated chipset. Related motherboards from the two Taiwan-based manufacturers will be showcased at CeBIT Hannover.
ATI’s current card-manufacturing partner, CP Technology, will also showcase an RS200-based motherboard at the trade show, but an actual launch schedule will depend on market response.
Sources said that new clients Wistron and FIC plan to further extend their cooperation with ATI to the notebook and PDA (personal digital assistant) sectors as well. The RS200 chipset can be used for notebooks and desktops, plus ATI can further offer a line of graphics chips, for which they are renowned, in handheld devices. In the past few years, ATI has extended its graphics chips to PDAs and mobile phones.
In the graphics chip business, the Canadian company revealed that three more manufacturers have decided to become card-manufacturing partners. They are Taiwanese memory module maker Transcend Information and Hong Kong-based Sapphire Technology and High Tech. Transcend will start manufacturing ATI based-cards at the end of this month.
To expand its graphics chip business, ATI has adopted an open platform strategy – allowing card manufacturers to produce graphics cards based on its chips.
Although it has successfully won orders from major PC makers such as Wistron and FIC, ATI’s core logic chipset business is regarded by the market as risky when considering the stiff competition from veteran core logic chipset designers, like Intel. Graphics card manufacturers said that given its well-known image for graphics technology, and input/output advantage in the RS200’s south bridge, ATI’s chipset may have a better chance in the game console market.
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?IR=N&ClassID=405&datePublish=2002/ 03/08&pages=06&seq=42
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