Asustek and MSI have said they will release motherboards based on VIA's upcoming 800MHz frontside bus Pentium 4 chipset, the PT400, DigiTimes reports. Gigabyte said it is evaluating the technology. Surprise, surprise. No sooner is the long-running legal battle between VIA and Intel sorted out, and the mobo makers decide they want to offer VIA-based Pentium 4 products after all.
During the fight, Elitegroup was the only major mobo player willing to release boards based on VIA's P4X range, which Intel at the time claimed violated its intellectual property. Indeed, Elitegroup was named as a co-defendant. Such action persuaded other mobo makers that discretion was the better part of valour. VIA was forced to release its own line of motherboards in order to ship its own chipsets in volume.
Elitegroup gambled that the lawsuits would be settled soon enough. We predicted back in September 2001 that the two companies would come together and cross-license their respective patents. All we got wrong was the date - we though it would happen in 2002. DigiTimes reports that MSI's PT400-based board is due next month, Asustek's in June.
News source: The Reg
During the fight, Elitegroup was the only major mobo player willing to release boards based on VIA's P4X range, which Intel at the time claimed violated its intellectual property. Indeed, Elitegroup was named as a co-defendant. Such action persuaded other mobo makers that discretion was the better part of valour. VIA was forced to release its own line of motherboards in order to ship its own chipsets in volume.
Elitegroup gambled that the lawsuits would be settled soon enough. We predicted back in September 2001 that the two companies would come together and cross-license their respective patents. All we got wrong was the date - we though it would happen in 2002. DigiTimes reports that MSI's PT400-based board is due next month, Asustek's in June.
News source: The Reg
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