Intel leaving low-end chipset business?

[Yousuf Khan]

Oh my! Are these the same vendors who could not
possibly increase their production (grin).

That's still a possibility of course, as this updated story doesn't
deal with that.

Yousuf Khan

 

[George Macdonald]

Here's an update to this story. It looks like according this story,
Intel may be trying to prevent the chipset makers from becoming too
dependent on business from AMD.

By exiting the entry level segment Intel is reducing itself as a
threat to Taiwan chipset makers, and providing them more opportunities
to expand their market presence on the Intel platform. To prevent AMD
from gaining more share, Intel is opening the door for chipset vendors
to increase their chipset production, as well as their market focus, on
the Pentium 4 platform.

Oh my! Are these the same vendors who could not
possibly increase their production (grin).

Well yeah, I wonder if they're going to get a specal dispensation license
now for 800MHz... for free?... which just *might* produce chips which are
err, highly overlockable?