What Is a Wireless Chipset?
The motherboard chipset determines almost all the functions of the motherboard. Among them, the type of CPU, system bus frequency of the motherboard, memory type, capacity, and performance, and the slot specifications of the graphics card are determined by the Northbridge chip in the chipset. The number, type and number of expansion interfaces (such as USB2.0 / 1.1, IEEE1394, serial port, parallel port, and VGA output interface of a notebook) are determined by the south bridge of the chipset. Some chipsets also include functions such as 3D accelerated display (integrated display chip) and AC'97 sound decoding, which also determine the display performance and audio playback performance of computer systems.
Main chipset
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- So far, manufacturers capable of producing chipset are
Main chipset desktop
- On the desktop Intel platform, Intel s own chipset has the largest market share, and the product line is complete, high, medium, low-end and integrated products are available. Other chipset manufacturers VIA, SIS, ULI and the latest additions Several ATI and NVIDIA together can only occupy a relatively small market share.
- On the AMD platform, after the acquisition of ATI, AMD also began to move to its own chipset with its own CPU combination like INTEL. There are not only many products, but also the market share is not small, and once the largest chipset supply on the AMD platform VIA has basically been invisible on the market. Originally, it defeated VIA with nForce2, nForce3, nForce4, and nForce5 series chipsets, and became the largest chip supplier of AMD platform NVIDA. It also acquired AMD and launched its own 6 series and After the 7 series chipsets, the market share has been eroded. AMD itself issued the landmark 7 series chipset based on the 6 series chipset, which not only firmly secured the throne of AMD platform chipset sales, but also passed the powerful 780G (for the first time, Contemporary integrated graphics defeated low-end discrete graphics.) The integrated chipset caught INTEL by surprise, sweeping the situation where Core 2 was under pressure some time ago.
Main chipset notebook
- In terms of notebooks, the Intel platform has absolute advantages, so Intel's own notebook chipset also occupies the largest market share. Other manufacturers can only play supporting roles and design products for AMD platforms with a very small market share.
/ Main chipset server / workstation
- In terms of servers / workstations, the Intel platform is an absolute advantage. Intel's own server / workstation chipset products occupy the vast majority of the market share, but in the field of high-end multi-channel servers based on Intel architecture, IBM and HP have Absolute advantages, such as IBM's XA32 and HP's F8 are very good high-end multi-channel server chipset products, but they are only applied to our company's server products and their reputation is not too great; and AMD servers / workstations Due to the small market share of the platform, AMD's own chipset products were mainly used in the past, and now some of them have also adopted NVIDIA products. It is worth noting that ServerWorks, which was once a brilliant server / workstation chipset based on Intel architecture, has completely withdrawn from the chipset market after being acquired by Broadcom; and ULI has also been acquired by NVIDIA, which is also very likely to exit the chipset market .