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SiS745 Getting More Popular.

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by Anna Filatova

[ 03/29/2002 | 09:38 PM ]

SiS, which has suddenly returned to the chipset business not so long ago, keeps winning more and more hearts of the mainboard makers, ready to start making products on SiS’ solutions.

Here are some numbers. The first successful discrete solution by SiS appeared Athlon chipset aka SiS735. 6 different mainboard manufacturers released solutions based on it. Among them were: ECS and Chaintech. The second much more successful product from SiS was SiS645 chipset for Pentium 4 with DDR333 support. This chip has attracted attention of 19 companies, among which are: AOpen, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ABIT.

Because of the current market situation, SiS aims mainly at the sales and development of Pentium 4 solutions, however, the market for Athlon will also receive the company’s deserved attention. That is why the company is now pushing forward very actively its new SiS745 core logic supporting DDR333. Thanks to the ties, which were established during the successful sales of SiS645, the company managed to start mass shipments of SiS745 to 9 manufacturers already. Here is a list of SiS745 based mainboards that are already available in retail: AOpen AK75PRO, ASUS A7S333, ECS K7S6A, EPoX 8S7A, EPoX 8S7A2, FastFame 6SFK, Gigabyte GA-7STX, Jetway 745DA-I, Lucky Star K7SA745, MSI 745 Ultra. As we see, the Big Four has already taken SiS’s side, which means a real lot. Well, it looks as if SiS has got a stable position in the chipset business and is not going to leave it any more.