PCI-E x16 and AGP for AMD platform

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

OCWorkBench posted some information on the upcoming ULI PCI-E chipsets:
http://www.ocworkbench.com/index.stm

Some parts of the text:

"M1695 supports the AMD 64 Opteron, A64, Sempron + the capability to support the 1xPCI-Ex16. On top of that, the chipset also allow 2 x PCI-Ex8 to support multivga (e.g. Nvidia SLI)."

"Although PCI-E is the next big thing for ULi, the chipset M1695 can also be coupled with M1567 south bridge to support AGP 8x. The M1695 can also be coupled with AMD 8131, 8132 chipsets to support PCI-X interface for workstation use for high end graphics, LAN, Disk controllers etc."

AGP on the southbridge is not as good as on the north, but it's not as bad as "AGP" on the PCI bus.

 

[Peter]

The 1695 isn't a chipset, it's "just" a HyperTransport-PCIE tunnel chip, to be combined with further tunnel chips like AMD's PCI-X and AGP tunnels, and/or anyone's north-south chipset (PCIE or AGP enabled, doesn't matter) like ULI's own 1689 single-chip as seen on ASRock low cost boards right now, or just a HT-attached south bridge, like AMD's or ULi's own.

Mix and match. HyperTransport lets you do that.

The only ones who have seen the 1695 so far are the HyperTransport consortium, though.