Radeon 9100 PRO chipset ready now

WE HAD A CHAT with ATI chipset guy who assured us that all the glitches are fixed and that the 9100 integrated chipset is already up and running in production. Seems that ATI boards are set to arrive very soon and some manufactures have confirmed to us that ATI has shipped them final versions of the chipset.

Remember that we said that one of the chipset revisions had some glitches with some USB 2.0 devices but now it's stable as a rock, we were told.

MSI, Asus, Shuttle and Sapphire will have this board ready very soon although some of their boards will go to OEM customers, since this is where they want to focus. It's up to these companies where to position their stuff.

We expect to see some of these products very soon and to give our onion (sic) about this wonder ATI chipset and how it works in real life.

Let us remind you that Shuttle has a 9100 IGP-based XPC, something we reported back from Cannes this year, from Nvidia's own Nvision partner conference.

Shuttle will be one of the ther that will do Nvidia and ATI chipsetwise all at the same time, the others are mighty Asus and MSI.

We are not entirely sure, but the other swinger, Gigabyte, should have its own design of this marchitecture soon, that's something we need to check, but it sure sounds reasonable to us. µ