SiS Shoots for DDR400 by 2002

Here we have a story that has made the rounds from site to site in the wonderous and willy nilly manner that we've come to know and expect from web-based information. On Halloween, The Inquirer reported that Cnet reported that Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) had plans to put out a chipset that would join the little silicon hands of P4 processors and RDRAM. The very next day, The Inquirer , but I haven't seen any more reportage on Cnet. According to the same Digitimes article, RDRAM-supporting chipsets are unlikely to be forthcoming from SiS because Intel's 2002 roadmap shows that the company will replace its Tulloch chipset with Tehama-E. The good new is that, while spurning RDRAM, SiS has plans to unveil DDR400-based P4 chipsets in 2002. According to another Digitimes article, SiS is becoming the Belle of the Ball with mobo makers because the SiS645 chipset provides good price/performance, is free of legal infringement concerns and is accessible. SiS was also able to get the SiS645 on the market before ALi's Aladdin-P4. Sometimes getting it all straight is a matter of following the merry little hills and valleys of the happily decentralized web.