According to the Taiwanese mainboard makers, in the end of last month SiS started shipping some if its new products. First, the mainboard manufacturers began receiving SiS648 and SiS650GL in small quantities. As you remember, the first one is a pretty successful chipset supporting 533MHz bus, AGP 8x and DDR400 memory. It is equipped with a new SiS963 South Bridge boasting ATA/133, IEEE1394 and USB 2.0 support. The second chipset of the two mentioned above is a low-cost integrated solution supporting DDR266 and PC133 memory, and featuring no opportunities for any external AGP graphics cards.

This way, it is evident that the mainboards based on these chipsets are to come to the market this month.

Besides, SiS also started shipping its Xabre 400 graphics chips. By the way, this fact has been already reflected in the retail market, as some of the Japanese hardware stores are already offering graphics cards based on Xabre400 from different manufacturers. Among the well-known companies, the new products are now offered by C.P.Technology (PowerColor) and Gigabyte. Their products cost around $100 for 128MB version and around $90 for a 64MB version.

At the same time the situation with the shipments of the new SiSR658 RDRAM chipset is still unclear. Despite the fact that the official announcement happened a while ago, there is still no info about the beginning of the mass production. But this never prevented one popular mainboard company from expressing their desire to make a solution on SiSR658. Yes, this is ASUS.