Second-tier Taiwanese motherboard manufactuers are feeling the squeeze at the moment, as they're finding it increasingly hard to get hold of ULi southbridges to pair with the ATI RD580 northbridge.

Strengthening its mainboard chipset division, NVIDIA has added the Taiwanese southbridge designer to its own empire. Better nForce chipsets are to come, but how will this affect ATI?

Sources inside Taiwan motherboard manufacturers have revealed that Intel are to phase out i865 and i915 chipsets and leave the entry-level chipset arena.