by Anna Filatova
12/23/2001 | 06:18 PM
Despite the seeming inactivity of ALi Company, it suddenly turned out that this manufacturer has already started shipping its Aladdin P4 chipset samples for Pentium 4 processors. Moreover, one of the mainboard makers, Iwill, which is ALi’s closest partner now, managed to design a mainboard on this chipset already.
According to VR-Zone, Iwill P4DA mainboard based on ALi Aladdin P4 will support Socket478 Pentium 4 CPUs, will feature 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM, an AGP 4x slot, 5 PCI slots, AC’97 sound, 4 USB ports and ATA/133 interface support.
We don’t know yet when Iwill P4DA will start shipping. As well as we don’t know anything about the performance of the new ALi Aladdin P4 chipset. However, we know one thing for sure: ALi is evidently late for the division of the Pentium 4 DDR chipsets market. That is why we don’t expect Iwill P4DA to become a popular solution anyway.