ATI IS VERY BUSY on the chipset front and is working to bring new tech to support AMD socket M2 CPUs. AMD is starting its move toward DDR 2 capable CPUs and ATI will be there to follow.
The chipset is called the RS485 and it supports one single graphic slot only. It's designed over a new reference motherboard as it has to accommodate new AMD DDR 2 CPUs. Those CPUs will bring a lot of memory and socket changes but they won't surface before sometime in Q2 next year. It's all done in order to support DDR 2 memory on AMD.
The chipset was sampled back in September and should be in production in December but you won't be able to do much with it before AMD introduces its new DDR 2 CPUs. Will you.
Nvidia also has its answer called the MCP55 but we heard that this chipset might actually show up later than we originally anticipated.
ATI RS485 should have some mode advanced graphic core inside of the core logic but we still have many details about it. We know it will be pin compliant with the already available SB450 chipset and upcoming SB600 chips.
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The chipset is called the RS485 and it supports one single graphic slot only. It's designed over a new reference motherboard as it has to accommodate new AMD DDR 2 CPUs. Those CPUs will bring a lot of memory and socket changes but they won't surface before sometime in Q2 next year. It's all done in order to support DDR 2 memory on AMD.
The chipset was sampled back in September and should be in production in December but you won't be able to do much with it before AMD introduces its new DDR 2 CPUs. Will you.
Nvidia also has its answer called the MCP55 but we heard that this chipset might actually show up later than we originally anticipated.
ATI RS485 should have some mode advanced graphic core inside of the core logic but we still have many details about it. We know it will be pin compliant with the already available SB450 chipset and upcoming SB600 chips.
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