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Event Coverage

CeBIT Hannover 2007 (Part 9)

By Vijay Anand - 26 Mar 2007

SiS' Booth

SiS' Booth

Main highlight for SiS was their latest SiS 672 series chipset that is Windows Vista Premium certified. It is still paired with the SiS 968 Southbridge.

This is SiS 672FX chipset for the Intel platform. Although the SiS 671FX boards that we've featured in our CeBIT 2007 coverage are rather new and have just recently been rolling out, these are only Windows Vista Basic certified due to its Mirage 3 graphics engine. The SiS 672FX that's ready to roll out soon uses a faster Mirage 3+ graphics engine and has a couple more advances to its multimedia handling, thus giving the SiS 672FX chipsets the Vista Premium certified labeling. Like the 671 series, there are the FX and non-FX versions as well in the 672 series. The difference is in the FSB speed supported. FX handles up to 1066MHz while the non-FX makes do with 800MHz (i.e. low-end Intel processor offerings only).

Already several manufacturers have SiS 672 series boards ready to ship as it is directly pin-to-pin compatible with existing 671 series boards. SiS mentioned that the board manufacturers should be tweaking their solutions at the moment and should be out by early next month.

Here's a Foxconn SiS 672FX motherboard. If you take a look back at our Foxconn coverage, you'll realize that it is identical to its current SiS 671FX based board.

There's also the mobile version known as the 672MX chipset and here's an early reference design shown at their booth.

There's also an AMD platform equivalent with the SiS 771 chipset and the reference board has been in its final state for sometime now, but as SiS explained, its tough to get partners to hop on to this platform with AMD having ATI in its pocket. They had a SiS 771 reference board set up for demo as well and it was running perfectly without any form of chipset cooling; not even a heatsink! SiS has been known to produce very low power efficient chipsets and they are still upholding this tradition.

Apart from platform chipsets, they have many other application specific chipsets, such this wireless LAN 802.11a/g compatible solution. Supports TKIP, AES encryption and QoS (802.11e) standard.

An eSATA controller too is in their list, so expect to see these chips in future motherboards from time to time.

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