FOR QUITE SOME TIME, Intel's had a reputation for being the "business" chipset to use if you wanted to run a Pentium 4, Xeon, or were the other purchaser of an Itanic system. Its products are regarded as very stable solutions, and many companies find comfort in the idea of buying a chipset built by the same company who designed the CPU it runs in, based on the (logical) premise that no one knows how to make the two work better than the people responsible for both. With the exception of i820 and the Rambus disaster, in fact, Intel has produced some of the best chipsets ever released for the various Pentium platform(s), and the company does deserve recognition for that fact.
While consumers have definitely benefited from Intel's high design standards, Chipzilla has another tendency which has been less-than-appreciated by customers-and-manufacturers alike?their chipsets and sockets practically define the term "planned obsolescence", forcing manufacturers to continually switch or update motherboard designs, RAM types, or socket form factors. End users, meanwhile, are faced with a dizzying array of chipset choices, with a new army of them marching out quickly, each "better" than the last.
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