Intervista con VIA

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Sul sito web Anandtech è stata pubblicata, a <a href=http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1565>questo indirizzo</a>, una interessante intervista con Richard Brown, Direttore marketing di VIA. Nell'intervista sono stati analizzati numerosi aspetti della produzione VIA attuale e futura; estratto qui di seguito riportato fa luce su uno dei prossimi progetti VIA, la serie di chipset che verranno utilizzati con i prossimi processori AMD Hammer.


<blockquote><i>DOMANDA: What are VIA's thoughts for the direction AMD is headed with their recently announced Hammer architecture? The inclusion of a North Bridge and Memory controller on the CPU itself takes a significant chunk out of the tasks that were conventionally reserved for chipsets. Do you think that there is potential in what AMD is doing with Hammer? How would it affect the role of VIA as a chipset manufacturer if more processor manufacturers went down this route?
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RISPOSTA: We think that the AMD Hammer processor is a great architecture for a CPU-Memory cluster in a multiprocessor server or workstation. It is a significant enhancement of the Athlon S2K bus and overcomes the limitations of that bus architecture.
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We are strongly committed to fully supporting the AMD Hammer architecture, and believe that there are significant opportunities for VIA to add value as a chipset manufacturer to this architecture, for example through the development of an AGP controller bridging chip and continuous enhancements of the South Bridge. Particularly for desktop and potential future mobile platforms, these features are just as critical as the DRAM controller.
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I think it's too early to speculate whether other processor manufacturers will follow AMD's route.</i></blockquote>