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| | Via To Produce Quad-Band Memory Chipset |
 | | Via has tentatively decided to postpone a QBM chipset for the Athlon platform because of the recent delay to the Clawhammer processor, Campbell said, and the uncertainty in AMD's roadmap. |
 | | QBM memory uses existing DDR DRAM chips, but requires specially made modules to produce a quad-pumped data rate of 4.2 Gbytes/s, double that of today's first-generation DDR modules. |
 | | Via theoretically could use apply QBM technology to one of its S3 graphics cores, noted Dean McCarron, an analyst with Mercury Research, Scottsdale, Ariz. Kentron licensed the QBM technology to both Via and its majority-owned subsidiary, S3 Graphics, which designs and handles the manufacturing for Via's line of integrated graphics chipsets. |
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