Computex 2000 Coverage Day 2: Motherboards

Chaintech

Chaintech has been enjoying a pretty large increase in sales recently, mostly because of their brand new management team. Needless to say that the entire team over there is pretty excited, and while they didn't have too much to show they did introduce a few new products of interest to us.

Chaintech's latest feature is something like like to call "3 BIOS" but contrary to what the name may sound like it doesn't mean that there are physically three BIOS chips on your motherboard. Instead it is much like Gigabyte's Dual BIOS and AOpen's Die-Hard BIOS where there are physically two chips. The name 3 BIOS comes from the three different methods of protection it offers you against BIOS corruption.

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The only i815E board we saw from Chaintech was this microATX board but depending on the demand we may see a regular ATX version as well. Chaintech also expressed to us a lack of enough i815 chipsets for them to make their 815 board the flagship for the company.

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The last thing of interest from Chaintech was their PM133 based which wasn't anything truly special other than that it was a working implementation of VIA's new integrated chipset.