CeBIT 2002 Part 2 - CPUs, Cooling, Motherboards, & Video

SiS

SiS presented a new line of graphics chips, designed to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce4 MX solutions.  The "330" series chips are manufactured on a 0.15µm process, and are running chip/memory clock speed combinations of 183/175 (SiS 328), 200/200 (SiS 332), 250/250 (SiS 334), or 300/275 (SiS 336). According to SiS, the chip should perform better than a GeForce 4 MX running at the same clock speed. Graphics cards will be equiped with 64 or 128MB RAM, and will support AGP 8x.

SiS's Pentium 4 chipset SiS655 was also first to be seen at CeBIT. It features two DDR SDRAM memory channels, and supports Intel's future P4 processors with a 133MHz FSB clock (FSB533).

ATI and NVIDIA

ATI entered the chipset market with two chipsets with integrated graphics, for P4 and Athlon - see our overview. Judging from the amount of ATI based graphics cards, ATIs decision to start selling their graphics chips to third party graphics card manufacturers was a success. A large number of Taiwan-based motherboard / graphics card manufacturers presented their ATI-based graphics cards.

NVIDIA presented a new version of their nForce chipset for AMD CPUs, which was also already covered in an AnandTech Industry Report.

Instead of handing out pencils or lighters, nVidia gave journalists samples of the new GeForce4 Go (for notebooks) as a souvenir.

On the left side, the 32MB version. On the right side, the version with 64MB - here, the graphics core sits on the bottom side of the BGA packaging, and the upper side is occopied by four memory chips.