by Anna Filatova
05/29/2002 | 11:09 PM
Despite the fact that there are hardly any products on ATI’s chipsets in the mainboard market, the company keeps getting scores in the new field (the chipsets were announced in March, so see their specs in this news story).
ATI major success is again in the mobile field, as Digitimes reports. The company has already received a pretty big order for IGP 320M chipset (for mobile Athlon CPUs) from two Taiwanese notebook makers: Quanta Computer and Arima Computer. 200 thousand of these chipsets will be shipped from June until August and will be used by the above mentioned companies to produce notebooks for "one US-based notebook heavyweight" (it must be HP or IBM, since Dell doesn’t use AMD processors).<%BANNER[article]%>
The situation in the desktop market is a bit worse for ATI, because there is the whole bunch of integrated chipsets for AMD Athlon there already (besides there is NVIDIA with its nForce solutions. So, ATI has to be happy with what they get in the Pentium 4 chipset market, where the competition is not so cut-throat. 8 companies have already announced that they had completed the development of IGP 340 based mainboards (for Pentium 4 processor with 533MHz/400MHz QP bus). They are: ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, FIC, Lite-On, Wistron, CP Technology and Sapphire Technology. All these mainboards will be showcased at Computex 2002 in Taipei. Anyway, the Pentium 4 chipset market is much bigger than that for Athlon chipsets, so I don’t think that ATI is regretting not very popularity of its IGP 320 for AMD Athlon chipset that much.