Marvell and Mai Logic working towards PPC970 support?

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For both parties.  Don't forget the second company mentioned there, Marvell.

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@KennyR

I still love that avatar.

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@Terminills

Could be because they have not fabbed the Articia-P yet.  They have not even fabbed the Articia-Sa yet, which is the intermediate step *to* the Articia-P.

Hard to find bugs in vaporware.

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I've seen plenty.  Might I mention the MCC, Walker, A3000+, all vaporware, but still physically existed.

Considering how long it took the Articia-S to go from samples to production....

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What 200Mhz FSB?  I have the Articia-P's specs here, and it states quite clearly:

166Mhz FSB

It also states that sampling has not begun yet, but will shortly.  (from Mai's website at that)

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Tell your sales rep that their site is quite outdated then.

I'd note, the Mai rep I delt with fed my old boss a bunch of baloney too.  (not Genesi I'm speaking of, I delt with Mai before in a contract)

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Well then that could explain it.

But I still have not been impressed yet with their designs.

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@ksk

I don't know about this ArtisiaS chip you're speaking of, but the Articia-S does not have proper AGP support built-in, it's a modified 64-bit 66Mhz PCI slot.

That's why on the A1 if you plug the wrong kind of PCI card into PCI slot 0, the AGP slows down.

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You will never be able to implement full AGP compliance with an AGP slot attached to a PCI-X slot.

A good half *if not more* of the AGP slots out there don't have full AGP complience either.  Hell, I've yet to run across a single AGP 8x vendor that has full complience.  (don't forget, AGP 8x complience means AGP 2x or slower cards no longer work, so if the slot can run an AGP 2x card, then it's not fully 8x complient)

The goal here is not to do one upsmanship by throwing off-handed comments about some complience standard that nobody bothers with anywhere else.  It is to support AGP cards, to have enough compatability in the chipset to run the AGP cards needed.