Who makes the AMD chipsets?

[Compman55]

For lets say the ATi/AMD northbridge / southbridge, is it true they now make their own in house like intel does?

Back when I built my AthlonXP system, nvidia, via, sis, and AMD 761 were the only chipsets around. Towards the A64 CPU's ATi came into the picture.

 

[JFAMD]

AMD makes them.

 

[Fox5]

ATi has made chipsets for quite a while, after AMD bought them, ATI's chipsets became AMD's.

 

[deanx0r]

You mean ATI makes them right?

 

[BD231]

AMD has always had their own in house chipsets, they just never used to offer feature's or performance which is why Via/nVidia did so well. ATI took care of that with the ATI 3200 chipset (named 580x after the merger).

 

[StrangerGuy]

AMD has always had their own in house chipsets, they just never used to offer feature's or performance which is why Via/nVidia did so well. ATI took care of that with the ATI 3200 chipset (named 580x after the merger).

At least AMD chipsets simply works. Not as flawless as Intel's, but compared to:

VIA: SB Live incompatiblity + AGP 4x bug + numerous other annoying stuff
Nvidia: BSODing NF4 firewall (This was a highly hyped feature by Nvidia back then) + HDD corruption + X-Fi / Audigy 2 incompatibility + Geforce 6150/6100 early stepping recall. Even more funny is how they managed to keep the HDD corruption as a "feature" all the way up to 790i.

 

[formulav8]

Like whats been said AMD's current chipsets started out as ATI chipsets. There have been a number of driver improvements and such that AMD revised. The latest AMD chipsets are still based on ATI but has alot of AMD influence in them.


Jason

 

[busydude]

I wish AMD supports both SLI and crossfireX configuration for their chipsets just like INTEL.

Not that I use any of them, but I like to keep my options open.

AMD always criticizes NVIDIA for their use of 'closed' technologies (CUDA,PhysX,3D,etc.). if they could open up i guess they have nothing to lose(royalties for integrating SLI??).

 

[Fox5]

I wish AMD supports both SLI and crossfireX configuration for their chipsets just like INTEL.

Not that I use any of them, but I like to keep my options open.

AMD always criticizes NVIDIA for their use of 'closed' technologies (CUDA,PhysX,3D,etc.). if they could open up i guess they have nothing to lose(royalties for integrating SLI??).

It's not the chipset that supports SLI anymore, it's something the motherboard manufacturers pay licensing for to add later. The licensing is fairly expensive, and given that AMD is a budget solution, it just seems that no one bothers.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It's not the chipset that supports SLI anymore, it's something the motherboard manufacturers pay licensing for to add later. The licensing is fairly expensive, and given that AMD is a budget solution, it just seems that no one bothers.

I'm pretty certain that NV just simply won't, for AMD chipsets.

 

[aigomorla]

AMD makes them.

^ thread.

Spoken from the AMD Rep himself.

JF doesn't Nvidia still make a few chipsets?

 

[schenley101]

amd/Ati designs them, i think they are fabbed at TSMC.

 

[BD231]

At least AMD chipsets simply works. Not as flawless as Intel's, but compared to:

VIA: SB Live incompatiblity + AGP 4x bug + numerous other annoying stuff
Nvidia: BSODing NF4 firewall (This was a highly hyped feature by Nvidia back then) + HDD corruption + X-Fi / Audigy 2 incompatibility + Geforce 6150/6100 early stepping recall. Even more funny is how they managed to keep the HDD corruption as a "feature" all the way up to 790i.

Yeah I heard some bad things on reliability, still, the performance difference was big enough to sway the market; Via chipsets were also cheaper.

 

[Hacp]

Hmm, I thought TSMC made them.