IBM looks for third party PowerPC mobo partners

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@asian1

Why would IBM blame Winbond for the failed chipset when it was Mai that failed to deliver the chipset?

Unlike you, I did follow POP when it was happening, and I fully remember the lack of the Mentor Arc Inc (Mai) Aureate-GX northbridge was the area of failure.  The 1 Winbond chip on the reference design ships to this day, even if it is now hopelessly obsolete.

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@asian1

That's quite interesting, as I've not had any issues getting winbond chips.  Also, as it was the southbridge, it is not as if they were locked-in as you are with a northbridge.  VIA and SIS still make PCI based southbridges, and as I've found, you can make a southbridge using OSS cores found on opencores.org without breaking the bank on a CPLD.