AMD Ditching Chipsets?
Posted on Thursday, 15 November, 2001 by David RossOver at ExtremeTech they have a posting about AMD leaving motherboard chipsets behind – this is a shame as they make some gooduns like the 761 which rocked the world not long ago.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has essentially exited the Athlon chipset market, focusing its design work on multiprocessor implementations and the upcoming 64-bit Hammer family. AMD, Sunnyvale, Calif., phased out its AMD-760 chipset a few weeks ago, and motherboard vendors report that the company has no plans for a replacement. In an interview Tuesday, Tim Wright, director of desktop marketing for AMD’s Computer Products Group, confirmed this was true. Read more about this over here. Pictures of Abit KS7 @ ClubicPosted on Thursday, 15 November, 2001 by RyszardAbit’s KS7 makes an appearance in a photo over at Clubic. It’s an SiS 745 based AMD board, 3 DDR (DDR333 compatible), 6 PCI and looks like a decent board layout wise. Check it out here. Saw this over at AMD
