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Anche ALi annuncia supporto pieno alla nuova piattaforma AMD K8 e lo fa con i modelli M1647/M1563.

It seems to me that the North Bridges for this processor family are mostly the same by all manufacturers and we will hardly see anything remarkable here soon. All of them are none other but an AGP controller combined with a HyperTransport tunnel in a single package. ALi M1647 is not an exception as well: there is hardly any difference between it and the AMDÂ’s own AMD-8151 chipset. Both support AGP 3.0 (AGP 2x/4x/8x), 16bit HyperTransport connection between the CPU and M1647 with 6.4GB/sec bandwidth, and 8bit HyperTransport interface between the chipset North Bridge and the I/O controller with 1.6GB/sec bandwidth. ALi K8 North Bridge will be packed into 31x31mm BGA with 564 pins.