Taiwan motherboard chip manufacturers such as Intel continues to slump

According to Taiwan media reports, although this quarter motherboard chip global demand increases, but the producers in Taiwan for example, via SIS still suffer from companies such as Nvidia and Intel's strong blocking. According to the motherboard industry insiders, Nvidia equipped with C51 series AMD chip in the K8 motherboard, because the chip used C51 series chip and Taiwan manufacturers of the price, the Taiwan manufacturers rely on the chip price advantage no longer exists.

Intel also plans to launch by the end of this month, the 945GZ chip group, 2006 Q1 entered the production phase.

It is reported that 945GZ does not provide PCIe 16 graphics port, only supports 800/533MHz front bus speed, as well as single channel DDR2 memory controller.

At the same time, Intel will continue in October to reduce its 915 series and the two series of 945 integrated graphics chipset $1, after this month, the price has been adjusted for the number 3.