Uli makes Agp, Pci-e, and pci compatible chipset.

[Silversierra]

As the title says, Uli made a new chipset that has agp, pci-e, and pci.
Here's the link.
http://theinquirer.net/?article=22530

 

[Peter]

The actual news is that they're making a HT-PCIE tunnel, and renaming their existing HT-AGP single chip to become the "south bridge"

 

[Concillian]

Seems a little late for something like this to be tremendously popular, but people have been saying that HT makes this fairly simple (at least compared to the other CPU <--> chipset bus designs that exist) for a while.

I just don't think that by the time this makes it to market there will be much demand for it.

But I've been wrong before, so who knows?

 

[imported_llama]

i cant see it taking off, a very small market for it imo

 

[Peter]

Well the one new chip that is ACTUALLY new, the HT-PCIE tunnel M1695, is a highly welcome addition to the HyperTransport puzzle. We have AGP, PCI-X and PCIE tunnel chips now, as well as a selection of south bridges - all of which are freely mixable. If you want to design a board using an ULi PCIE tunnel, an AMD PCI-X tunnel and an NVidia single-chip "southbridge", you can do that - and it'll even work. That's because those "tunnel" chips not only fork to their specific type of bus, but also tunnel the HT through so you can daisy-chain further HT stuff to them.

The other chip "introduced" today, the M1567, is just the existing M1689 AGP single-chip solution with a new number on to make it look like a south bridge - if you ask me. The feature set is strikingly identical.

 

[Silversierra]

If it'd have been a few months ago, when they first started making pci-e boards...,
but now, pci-e cards aren't that expensive, but I guess people with 9800pro's, etc may want to keep them a little longer if they want to upgrade.

 

[Peter]

It's not like you HAVE to combine the AGP-enabled M1567 southbridge with the M1695. You might just as well use the existing, AGP-less M1563 and make a pure PCIE-PCI board.

 

[WT]

Anand - Computex 2005 - Uli chipset news

This news and the boards that will soon follow have sufficiently whet my appetite .... I was thinking my only choice for an oddball board to allow me to bypass a full system upgrade was going to be the Asrock K8 Combo Z board (socket 754/939) but the Uli chipset looks like it could indeed be a more substantial player in a market desperate for backwards AGP compatability.
Granted, I upgrade my video card about once a year but my next upgrade will involve EVERYTHING (board,cpu/vid card), and will cost an arm and a leg, so using an existing AGP 6800 until I can affford a PCI-e vid card even further down the road is a huge plus for me.