The Canadian graphics forge ATI has shown a complete product line of chipsets with integrated graphics in Hannover. All relevant CPUs will be supported, from future Pentium 4 versions to Athlon 4 notebooks.
ATI's committment to the chipset market has been prepared carefully. In February 2000 the company took over the chipset developer ArtX and at the following CeBIT it already showed the first mainboards. But these products never became ready for producting.
During the next two years ATI lost market shares in the field of simple graphics chips - some people may still remember the "Mach32 and Mach64", a simple solution found in many office-PCs, low-cost PCs, and servers in the midninetieth. This segment now nearly exclusively is taken by integrated chipsets of Intel, VIA, and SiS. When in June 2001 also NVIDIA presented its nForce , ATI's chances in the market went further down.
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