Re: Intel's chipset monopoly

Date	Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:51:06 -0500
From	Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com>
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On 01/01/2012 8:40 PM, Orson Cart wrote:
> VIA, SiS, ATI and NVIDIA used to make chipsets for FSB CPUs up to
> Core 2 and Atom ... but all this ceased when Intel brought out
> the Nehalem.
> I still wonder why they have not granted permission to others to
> mate with their CPUs? Perhaps now they use internal memory controller,
> a crappy northbridge will not choke memory bandwidth, and OEMs
> might just select the minimum price.
> But I really have a feeling they are against NVIDIA most of all.
> Why?
> AMD seems content for NVIDIA to make stuff, even though NVIDIA
> are a rival for their GPU division.

AMD is now a monopoly on its own chipsets now too. Nvidia has dropped 
out of building AMD chipsets a long time ago.

	Yousuf Khan

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Intel's chipset monopoly "Orson Cart" <ex-privat@parts.org> - 2012-01-02 02:40 +0100
  Re: Intel's chipset monopoly DevilsPGD <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> - 2012-01-02 01:39 -0800
  Re: Intel's chipset monopoly Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-03 23:51 -0500
    Re: Intel's chipset monopoly "Jim" <jim@wtf.invalid> - 2012-01-06 09:58 -0500
      Re: Intel's chipset monopoly Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 17:39 -0500

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