PCI Express-Chipsätze von SiS werden ausgeliefert

Die beiden Pentium 4-Chipsätze SiS656 und SiS649 werden bereits in der zweiten Dezemberhälfte auf Mainboards zu finden sein. Der SiS656 verfügt dabei über ein Dual-Channel-Speicherinterface für maximal 4 GByte Speicher, FSB800, DDR2-667 sowie PCI Express. Auf ein Dual-Channel-Interface muss der SiS649 verzichten, er besitzt lediglich einen Kanal, der bis zu 2 GByte ansteuern kann.

Aufs nächste Jahr müssen wir alle Athlon 64-Freunde vetrösten, der SiS756 wird erst Ende des Jahres in die Produktion gegeben. Bis Mitte Januar müssen sich deutsche Kunden sicherlich noch gedulden, um auch auf ihrem Athlon 64-System mit SiS und PCI Express durchzustarten.

SiS informiert unterdessen darüber, dass man eine offizielle Zertifizierung der PCI Express-Gruppe erhalten zu haben.

Pressemitteilung

SiS to obtain PCI-SIG Certification

SiS PCIe Chipset Are Succssfully Designed-in with Over 20 Motherboard Models

Taipei, December 15, 2004 –Leading core logic chipset manufacturer Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) announced today that its PCIe chipsets including SiS656, SiS649, SiS756 and SiS965 are successfully designed-in with over 20 different motherboard designs.

SiS is the first and only chipset manufacturer in Taiwan to be officially certified by PCI-SIG  organization. The PCI Express specifications supported by the SiS656, SiS649, SiS756 and SiS965 have been certified and listed on the PCI-SIG website (see Figure 1), signifying that SiS’s new-generation PCI Express chipsets meet the leading-edge and international standard. PCI-SIG's main goals are to manage and develop the standards for PCIe bus interface technologies, promote the innovation and development of PCI in accordance with industry needs, and to guarantee product quality through a strict validation process. SiS’ dedicated efforts to obtain the PCIe certification represent not only its product strength recognized by international and industrial standard but also the results adopted by worldwide customers to plan as design-in products with more than 20 models.

The SiS756 has been planned the design-in models by ASRock, ASUS, ECS, Fujitsu-Siemens, Gigabyte and MSI, and the SiS656 and SiS649 are as well accepted as the design-in by ASUS, Foxconn, Fujitsu-Siemens, ECS, Gigabyte and MSI. More products incorporated SiS chipsets will continue to be launched on the global market in the near future.