Computex 2003 - Day 4: XGI, Motherboards, and cheap Itaniums
by Evan Lieb & Andrew Ku on September 26, 2003 7:54 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
Shuttle
Not surprisingly, Shuttle had some Hammer motherboards to show off at Computex this year.
The motherboard pictured above is Shuttle’s nForce3 150 motherboard. Shuttle is very concentrated on SFF sales, so this will be Shuttle’s primary R&D focus on the AMD side of things versus continuing to support and develop nForce2 motherboards. Shuttle decided to not go with VIA simply because their relationship with NVIDIA is strong, and they see no need to engineer a VIA K8T800 motherboard when nForce3 performed as expected.
Shuttle is also one of several motherboard makers intrigued by ATI’s IGP9000 chipset. Shuttle’s nForce2 IGP motherboard was a big seller, but they like their Radeon IGP9000 chances even better. It’ll be interesting to see if the IGP9000 can drive some sales based on it’s excellent DX8 compatibility.
The most interesting news from Shuttle at this event was their announcement that they would be bundling Linux (Mandrake 9) with all their upcoming SFFs for the foreseeable future. This is certainly an interesting turn of events, and will hopefully further drive Linux to the mainstream as others (like Walmart) have done with the power they have.
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AgaBooga - Friday, September 26, 2003 - link
I really hope XGI can show some performance, that will create more competition between themselves and the current two major players.The fact that the benchmark wasn't as well as what is expected, I'd like to see how the lower version perform because those ones are what they will sell the most of.