Friday, November 25, 2005

ATI Getting Ready for AMD Socket M2

The Inquirer reports about ATI's new chipset for the AMD - the RS485 - aimed for the upcoming 940-pin Socket M2.

The chipset is called the RS485 and it supports one single graphic slot only. It's designed over a new reference motherboard as it has to accommodate new AMD DDR 2 CPUs. Those CPUs will bring a lot of memory and socket changes but they won't surface before sometime in Q2 next year. It's all done in order to support DDR 2 memory on AMD. [The Inquirer]

It was also reported that NVidia will also release its new chipset for the Socket M2 - called MCP55.

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