In a bid to further withdraw from low-margin chipset business, Intel Corp. plans to boost its orders to Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. in the third quarter of the year. The move will decrease Intel’s chipset market share, but will also maximize Intel’s profit margins, as the company will not have to sell low-cost chipsets to support sales of its microprocessors.
Intel is projected order SiS671 and SiS672 core-logic sets from SiS in Q3 2007, a news-story citing Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) news-paper at DigiTimes claims. Currently the world’s largest chipmaker only uses SiS662 chipset with its value Desktop Board D201GLY. Adding two more core-logic models means that Intel may plan to reduce the share of its own low-cost chipsets among its own-brand motherboards.
SiS671 and 672 core-logic sets support integrated DirectX 9-compliant graphics core, support DDR2 memory and Intel Core 2 as well as Pentium D processors.
Source: X-bit labs