ATI gets 2 mobo customers for R200 core

ATI's R200 graphics core for P4 chipsets has two new customers, Wistron and FIC. This puts ATI up against the might of Intel directly, as well as nVidia. While nVidia builds its own chipsets and has been limited to the Athlon platform by the heavy duty licensing demands of Intel (think lots of moolah), ATI is taking a different tack, and looking to get its graphics core into everything from desktop to notebook chipsets, and onto PDAs. This is an interesting strategy because, Taiwanese companies are starting to see more orders coming in for notebook and PDA based components and boards. Toshiba has handed over orders to Compal, and notebook shipments from Compal, Quanta, Arima, and Mitac have are showing significant growth over 2001. Looks like integrated graphics is going to be a hot ticket item for Taiwanese chipset and mobo vendors this year, and it's all going to take off at CeBIT.

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