SiS and Via prepare Pentium 4 chipsets
News However, ALi and SiS may not be able to ramp up their chipset production to full volumes until the end of the year, as they complete debugging. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies have rolled up the launch dates for the 645 and...
[August 6, 2001, 17:29]
Intel may sue over new Pentium 4 bus
News But third-party chipset makers such as Via, Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS), Nvidia and ATI require a special licence to make Pentium 4-compatible products using the faster bus speed, even if they are already licensed to make 400MHz-bus chipsets.
[May 7, 2002, 14:04]
Intel dominates chipset market
News At their peak in 2001, Taiwanese vendors such as Via Technologies, Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) and Acer Labs (ALI) commanded about 60 percent of the market. Intel and SIS grew largely at the expense of Via, a trend that IDC expects to continue.
[September 2, 2002, 15:12]
Athlon gets souped-up chipsets
News SiS's offering will be the graphics chip SiS330, which is expected to make its debut in the Pentium 4-based chipset SiS660 in the third quarter of this year, according to industry speculation. Besides the benefits they will offer consumers, the...
[January 22, 2002, 17:13]
Cheap Intel chipsets on the way out
News Rival chipset manufacturers such as Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and Via Technologies are primed to take advantage of Intel's production changes, according to a recent Morgan Stanley report. Between SiS and Via, they [Intel] prefer SiS chipsets...
[August 4, 2005, 9:25]
Acer undercuts chipset rivals
News However, the chipset is using a 0.25-micron manufacturing process, less advanced than those used by Via and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) for their Pentium 4 chipsets. Via uses a 0.22-micron process and SiS manufactures at 0.18 microns.
[August 31, 2001, 14:07]
Via readies Hammer chipsets
News Motherboards based on Hammer chipsets from Via and rivals Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) and Acer Labs (ALI) are expected to be on display at the Computex Taiwan trade show starting on 3 June. SIS is readying the SIS755 and SIS760 chipsets, which...
[May 21, 2002, 14:19]
Sony VAIO PCV-W1 review
Reviews The VAIO W1 is a powerful PC, based around a 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, the SiS 651 chipset and 512MB of DDR SDRAM. Its integrated SiS 651 graphics module delivers less than a tenth of the 3DMark 2001 SE performance of Dell’s Dimension 8300...
[October 8, 2003, 11:50]
Faster Athlon XP to arrive in weeks
News SiS and Via, two major chipset makers for AMD processors, are both talking up their plans to support an Athlon XP 400MHz front-side bus. SiS debuted the SiS748 chipset with 400MHz FSB support at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover earlier this month...
[March 25, 2003, 13:04]
Rock Xeno-m review
Reviews The Xeno-m’s motherboard uses an SiS 650 chipset, which incorporates a graphics module and allows memory sharing with the main system. The difference between these two notebooks is largely down to graphics performance, the Xeno-m’s integrated SiS...
[October 1, 2002, 7:33]
Acer Aspire 1705 SCi review
Reviews In our review system, the 17in.display was driven by an SiSM650 controller, which is integrated into the SiS 962 chipset. As mentioned above, 3D graphics isn’t this system’s strong point, thanks to the limited power of the integrated SiS M650...
[July 15, 2003, 8:39]
Intel sues Via as chipset wars begin anew
News Acer Labs, SiS and ATI Technologies all have Pentium 4 chipset licences and are expected to release products soon. In the new lawsuit, Intel has alleged that Taipei, Taiwan-based Via does not have a licence to build a Pentium 4 chipset.
[September 10, 2001, 9:24]
VIA lawsuit seeks to block Pentium 4
News Acer Labs, SiS and ATI Technologies all have Pentium 4 chipset licences and are expected to release products soon. The action follows a barrage of suits filed in Taiwan earlier this month, in which VIA alleged that Intel illegally pressured...
[September 20, 2001, 13:00]
ATI gives graphics boost to budget PCs
News The new chip is unlikely to have much of an effect on Intel, he said, but it could dent numbers for Via and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), which together account for about a third of the chipset market.
[June 23, 2003, 13:38]
Via sets date for Pentium 4 chipset launch
News Also pushing similar products through are Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), which is to begin volume production of the 645 chipset next month, and Acer Labs, which will launch its M1761 by the end of the year.
[August 13, 2001, 15:56]
