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

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" 🙂
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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