From: GP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dean Kent over at RWT just sent me his latest Industry Update....for June
2001....as always an excellent read....and I highly recommend it....now I
guess it would seem VIA have more problems than we know of.....here's a quote:
If this were not bad enough, VIA found itself in a controversy regarding
the 686B South Bridge and data integrity that turned out to simply be a
compatibility problem with the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Card.
However, there are now some reports that a manufacturing problem has
surfaced with the KT133A chipset. Reportedly, all chipsets shipped since
April are unable to operate reliably at 133MHz, causing VIA to offer to
reimburse motherboard makers the difference in price between the KT133 and
KT133A. Some motherboards with these bad chipsets have apparently been
shipped, but VIA may have dodged a bullet due to the industry slowdown.
Many of the larger manufacturers seem to have a lot of inventory, so most
of the newly manufactured boards had not yet hit the street before the
problem was discovered. Unfortunately, these motherboard makers are not
happy that they now have a large stock of boards that cannot be sold for
what they cost to make, so the offer by VIA is not good enough, and VIA
likely does not have the funds to pay for actual losses.
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT062601091639
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Garind P
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