AMD's secret chipset business

THAT MAD MIKE MAGEE isn't a bad reporter for being such an old duffer but unlike yours truly he can't wheedle out all of the secrets.

Take, as an instance, the piece first reported on Extremehardware and picked up by Mageek about AMD "exiting" and then "not exiting" the chipset business.

Mike missed one big chipset push that AMD is currently contemplating and it's all to do with HyperTransport again.

There's a unit in AMD recently formed with the brief to become a profit/loss centre and requested, briefed, charged to get real business based just on HyperTransport (HT) chips.

That push will come K8 time and the calculation at the Great Satan of Taperecorders is that there's lucrative and real money in HyperTransport.

I mean, Cisco and the Mighty Puffin of Santa Clara can't be wrong adopting it, can they?

How closely AMD will work with API is a point worth thinking about - the latter turned its attention to HyperTransport round about the time that it decided this Alpha chip stuff was neither a candle for an angel nor a poker for the devil. µ

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