NVIDIA chipset SHOWS TO CRUSH K8 Processors AMD HAMMER
NVidia Crush K8 chipset consists of a south bridge chip, which is integrated video interface controller AGP. As the director of nVidia chipset Drew Henry, because the engineers at AMD embedded memory controller, which is traditionally placed in the Northbridge chip directly into the processor itself K8, the value of the server of the bridge dropped significantly. Therefore, experts nVidia decided to do without a separate chip North Bridge and AGP controller build in Southbridge.
According to Henry, this decision will significantly accelerate the development of motherboards based on the new chipset.
Crush K8 chipset will be released on 0.15-micron process technology in the factories of Taiwan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC).
Other manufacturers of chipsets, including the company VIA Technologies, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and ALi (previously - Acer Laboratories), intend to produce chipsets for the new processors AMD, consisting of both the south and north of the bridge, as well as with integrated graphics controllers . Canadian developer of graphics processor ATI Technologies also plans to produce chipsets for the platform K8. The company will also produce chipset consists of two chips, which will more quickly make changes to the server-bridge chipset, if requested by the new protocol specification of graphics AGP.
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