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Whats the deal with VIA and Intel? With the motherboards...and intel not being to happy with VIA producing boards for P4?
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Fenrir(AVA)
"Fearlessness is better then a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors.
The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago"
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VIA doesn't have a license for the Pentium 4 frontside bus (it has been reported that the license fees demanded by Intel were so high that VIA refused to pay them). VIA now produces P4 chipsets without a license but it remains questionable if this is illegal or not. For this reason (and to avoid the wrath of Intel) most motherboard manufacturers don't produce VIA-based P4 boards but use SiS chipsets instead on their P4 boards (SiS has got a license from Intel).
To push their chipsets into the market, VIA has begun to sell its own motherboard brand (however, the boards are produced by other manufacturers, as far as I know Soltek is one of them) but so far they are very rare at the retail stores... -
The case is already finished and Intel won. VIA isn't able to manufacture the P4 chipsets because the S3 license wasn't transferrable.Comment
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