by Anna Filatova
01/08/2001 | 07:11 AM
SiS hasn’t been very active lately, because of some production problems. SiS was in a certain conflict with UMC, which manufactured its chipsets. That’s why there haven’t been many SiS based mainboards in the market lately. Now that SiS has already finished the construction of its new fab, the company is going to be much more active in the coming year and to win about 30% of the chipset market. For this purpose, SiS is going to introduce 2 integrated chipsets supporting DDR SDRAM, SiS635 and SiS735 for Socket370 and Socket A platforms respectively. However, the company couldn’t be happy with that and decided to introduce a couple of discrete chipsets next year as well. The first chipset in this discrete family should be SiS633 and SiS733 core sets. They will be also designed for Socket370 and Socket A CPUs correspondingly and their features will be similar to those of VIA Apollo Pro133A, i.e. will support PC133 SDRAM modules. As to the recent forecasts, the DDR SDRAM share will make around 30% by the end of 2001 year. Believing these forecasts, SiS supposes that the current low-cost chipsets supporting PC133 SDRAM will sell well.
The cost of SiS discrete chipsets supporting PC133 SDRAM will lie around $15-$20 that’s why the company hopes this will attract the major mainboard manufacturers, such as Asus, Gigabyte, Micro-Star, and ECS.