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Why is the chipset important? What about the role of the chipset in cell phones? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.211.236.190 (talk) 02:49, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

when it says that "now that sun and apple have switched to x86" that is kind of misleading, because sun still makes a lot of their SPARC prodcuts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.27.202 (talk) 16:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think there should be a comprehensive list of devices and known chipsets. They should be sorted by device type, not brand. Driver compatibility would also be useful.Xyc0 (talk) 05:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why are graphics processors/cards listed on this page? This article pertains to chipsets and that information can easily be obtained on other pages. --71.112.220.214 (talk) 16:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is this article really a stub anymore? It seems to have a fair amount of information. Or is there specifically some more topics that should be added? - OracleGuy01 15:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think listing the name of PC chipset manufactors is better than just listing the examples of chipsets, so I did it. - Alexander the Mans 02:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For anyone interested in expanding this article: see the french one. It's quite complete! 200.55.107.117 02:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good call, thanks. MOXFYRE (contrib) 13:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done! I copied the chipset list from the French article. Couldn't find a list of ATI chipsets. Does anyone have one?? MOXFYRE (contrib) 17:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PCI[edit]

"The northbridge links the CPU to very high-speed devices, especially main memory and graphics controllers, and the southbridge connects to lower-speed peripheral buses (such as PCI or ISA)."

Could be confusing now that PCIe is a standard for graphics cards. PCI is mentioned in reference to the south bridge while graphics cards with the north. While PCI and PCIe are different not every one knows this and I feel it could be confusing. Perhaps replace AGP in the diagram with AGP/PCIe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim1980tim (talk • contribs) 15:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you guy it mix up Northbridge original design was intended for CPU & RAM only or highsped only. The graphic PCI slot was added, because the demand for from transforming 2D to 3D technologies and Graphic Card are able to achieve a portion of CPU speed. Any devices that can output (700MHz) is considered highsped.

Since the beginning of 2 second generation (between PCI-X & AGP) there was a mass investment in serial connections and a lot of engineers want to argue and redefine that Northbridge is intended for CPU, RAM and highspeed serial interface. However, the networking industry was very against this, because parallel computing is one of the common practice and most high-end Quad Core CPU today are built for virtualization (not for speed) and very dependant on parallel interface, without it the processor is like a machine that can run in speed only, but unable to achieve effiency.

PCI Express in today (aka third genertaion arguably the fourth generation) was placed in Northbridge, only because there was a demand in the graphic market, and the developement was matchable to portion what CPU can do.

First Generation RIVA TNT, PCI Second Generation PCI-X Third Generation AGP Fourth Generation PCI Express

- Note some people don't consider PCI-X as a generation, because it was mainly use by enterprise systems.

Duplication of content[edit]

Is it really necessary to have this huge section listing chipsets? The term "chipset" is used more broadly than referring to just the northbridge and southbridge in modern personal computers. Given that this content is already covered in "list of" and "comparisons of" articles, I see no need for lists to be in this article as it misrepresents the subject by placing far too much emphasis on a singular use of the term. Mentioning the manufactures and linking to the "list of" and "comparisons of" articles should suffice. Rilak (talk) 06:06, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chipsets[edit]

 What is the chipset?  Is it just a big intersection where the peripherals come together to form a single route to the 
 CPU?  Or does anything happen in the chipset? 207.210.137.115 (talk) 22:57, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Obsolete[edit]

"Current manufacturers of chipsets…"

This seems obsolete. Intel has pretty much kicked others to thew curb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.252.239 (talk) 00:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Include more types of chipsets? Or create a separate Wi-Fi Chipset topic/section?[edit]

The Wi-Fi#Hardware section links to this Chipset page, although nothing about Wi-Fi chipsets can be found here and they are quite different from what is described here.

Hence I suggest either a Wi-Fi Chipset page to be created (or a section on that topic be added to the Wi-Fi page) or this Chipset page be expanded to include Wi-Fi (and potentially other) Chipsets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friendfx (talk • contribs) 02:03, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]