VIA and SiS look to non-chipset businesses

To minimize the risks coming from Intel’s unpredictable chipset capacity adjustments, VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) are aggressively fulfilling their own respective product mix strategies for 2006, and claim they are unaffected by Intel’s latest release of entry-level chipsets into the market, according to the companies. Intel reportedly resumed production of its 865-series chipsets earlier this year, which may have affected the business of third party chipset makers, and recent reports claim Intel plans to flood the market with the entry-level chipsets this quarter.

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