Springdale Changes and Pressure

While I was at Comdex Digitimes released a story announcing the FSB change for the Springdale chipset saying that it will be accelerated from 133x4 to 200x4. It is unlike Intel to make such an abrupt change in their product lines but I believe in the long run it will be for the best. VIA, SIS and AMD might not think so.
"Taiwanese chipset designers Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies may both feel the impact, industry sources said. SiS, though having Pentium 4 technology licensing from Intel, will need to adjust its product designs and change the FSB standard of its new-generation chipsets, including the SiS648FX and SiS655, from 677MHz to 800MHz."
The only drawback will be the "in-between" products like "Granite Bay" that will in effect be released and almost immediately put out to pasture.

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