Digital ICs/DSP: Motherboard Chip Provides Dual Memory Channels And 800-MHz FSB

Dec. 4, 2003

Designers of Intel Pentium 4 systems can now get a dual-channel DRAM architecture and full support for 800-MHz front-side buses with a new motherboard chip set. With samples available now, the SiS655FX uses an extremely flexible dual-channel system architecture that supports all types and capacities of memory modules. Yet it still retains full dual-channel functions at a memory bandwidth up to 6.4 Gbytes/s. This lets users select almost any memory module without limitations in module specifications, which is a bonus for both mainstream and power users seeking upgrade and performance enhancements on Intel Pentium 4 platforms.

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.www.sis.com

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Dave Bursky

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.