Dell is using SIS chipset on a nettop for a long time:
http://www1.la.dell.com/br/pt/empresa/Computadores/desktop-optiplex-160/pd.aspx?refid=desktop-optiplex-160&s=bsd&cs=brbsdt1

This makes me remember the times of Socket A where the chip SIS 745 hit on the market as a better-than-VIA and cheaper-than-nforce alternative. I personally got the SiS 748 that came later on.

It was cool on temps, it didnt have those stupid incompatibility problems that VIA had with some ATI AGP cards, and was cheaper than nforce2-based motherboards, without sacrifying performance too much. It was overall a really good value. The SiS 741GX was almost exactly the same chipset but it included integrated graphics.

Of course it lacked dual channel but back in those times, dual channel did little for improving performance, maybe because the socket A platform was being the limitant here.

Then, later on, SiS started to dissappear slowly from the market. Not sure why.. but I remember another good chipset for Athlon 64 and something similar for the Intel platforms, and that was all.

The last time I saw a SiS chipset live was this Sis 672 in a MSI core 2 duo laptop, which I serviced, and I concluded that it was very good, but the Mirage 3+ IGP was quite inferior to intel GMA4500 and 3100.

But for those who slowly die in an office everyday, eating excell numbers or writing dadaism poetry in Word, will appreciate this chipset a lot. It simply works, cool and pretty fast, and for the price, we should start thinking about it.

I just checked MSI laptops and there is a brand new model, including this Sis chipset, a core 2 duo T6800 and as candy, an ATI 3430. I think I will give it a go. Definitely.

"Ironically, the company did make a rather ominous statement that it will only support the chipset until 2011.."

That's really stupid of SiS to say this. It's like they're actually telling OEMs not to use this chip. Or are they coming up with something new?