ATI Gives Chipsets a Try - Introducing the Radeon IGP

Welcome to the Family

Exactly what will ATI be releasing and when? As it stands now, the Radeon IGP consists of five different IGP parts and two IXPs. We already mentioned the two IXPs (200 and 250) as well as their differences, also remember that these two IXPs can be used interchangeably with any of the IGPs.

On the Athlon side of things we have the Radeon IGP 320 and 320M. These chips will support both a 100MHz and 133MHz (200/266MHz DDR) FSB and they only differ in that the 320M will be used for mobile Athlon 4 procesors.

For the Pentium 4 ATI has a few more chipsets they'll be offering. The Radeon IGP 330 will only be offered in a desktop version and will be ATI's first Pentium 4 solution with support for the 400MHz FSB. Then, ATI will release the Radeon IGP 340 and 340M with support for the 533MHz FSB (while the 330 will be kept around for the next-generation 400MHz FSB Celerons). Again the 'M' denotes mobile thus making the 340M a mobile Pentium 4 chipset.

The integrated graphics and all of the other features should remain the same across this entire family, the only exception being the Radeon IGP 340. Because it'll be the last IGP out the gates the Radeon IGP 340 is currently planned to have a higher graphics clock speed than the 330 and 320.

As far as a release schedule, here's what ATI's tentative plans are: