by Anna Filatova
04/21/2002 | 09:04 AM
SiS650 is known to be the only "legal" integrated chipset for Pentium 4 (P4M266 has fallen into Intel’s disgrace). In May this situation should change as there will be new i845G/GL/GLL chipsets coming. And in the meanwhile SiS650 is pretty popular among the mainboard manufacturers. For instance, this month SiS shipped around 600 thousand SiS650 chipsets, while SiS645 sold three times worse: 200 thousand. Of course, there is SiS645DX, which is replacing the predecessor very rapidly, however, 600 thousand integrated chipsets in one month is a very high rate for SiS. By the way, note that most of these chipsets were intended for OEM customers, as SiS650 is not so popular in the retail market.
And in conclusion I would like to say that SiS has already started shipping SiS645GX at a very reasonable price of $18 for per unit larger customers, which is supposed to get even more popular than its elder brother in may, when Celeron(Willamette-128) is due.