I contacted ASRock about SiS 756 and...

[M-1]

...contrary to my expectations they kindly replied!

The answer is really strange and enigmatic! Here it is:

"Sorry, right know we do not have any information about if and when we have such chipsets."

!!!
So they don't have SiS 756 and they don't know IF they will have it!
What does it means?
Is it SiS that don't want to work with ASRock on SiS 756?
Is it Asus that don't want ASRock using SiS 756?
Is it a standard answer without a specific meaning?

Would like to know your opinions.

Bye!

[Bismarck]

You could do a search on this topic. I believe we discussed this about a month ago. Apparently SiS isn't cooperating with Asrock anymore to produce new chipsets, because they want to change their image.

[M-1]

Hmmm... I read the topic and I also read an interview to SiS CEO. Yes, they want to change their image however nobody explicitly said they didn't want to cooperate with ASRock anymore.

And, however, collaborating with ECS is not the best way to change image!!

I hope they know what they're doing... currently there are no new SiS boards concretely available... only vapourware.
And ASRock reputation is growing!

Or maybe there are different reasons for this strange situation...

Bye!

[amdfreak007]

foxconn winfast is the only manfacturer that i know
who have boards with sis756

[Bismarck]

M-1: Well it was only speculation (in the topic I was talking about), but BT has got connections at Asrock and he told there were not gonna be new SiS-based boards anytime soon. Add to that the abortion of the K8-Combo (the SiS 755FX board that is) and one gets the idea of a break-up between Asrock and SiS.

Since past SiS-based Asrock boards have met with much praise and enthusiasm (and I bet corresponding sales figures), it would be highly surprising if Asrock caused this split up.

As for Foxconn/Winfast, I have no clue why SiS gave the 756 chipset to them, as they are not being known as a topquality manufacturer (as far as I know, please do correct me when wrong).

[Alexander]

I highly doubt ASRock dropped SIS chipsets on free will ;)

SIS try to change their image.....they rise the prices and reduce rebates to reduce appearance on low cost/OEM/budget sector and increase the appearance on more expensive boards from 1st category tiers, such as ASUS, MSI, etc.

I just guess SIS has not been cheap enough anymore for ASUS to appear on ASRock boards, so they sticked over to VIA.

Elitegroup may still be able to pay the price, they can order in higher quantities and gain more rebates. And they're clever enough to know that SIS users and system builders won't stick to other chipsets -> reliability saves a lot additional service costs!

[M-1]

Foxconn showed some motherboards based on SiS 756 at Cebet 2005 but:
- they were socket 754 designs (not very interesting);
- these motherboard are not officially annunced and there are no signs of them in Foxconn website;

On the other hand ECS shows a (apparently mediocre) motherboard in their site: 756-A.

Asus and MSI both annunced motherboards based on SiS 756: the first one showed a prototype during Cebit (named A8S)... at least it seems very interesting.

One fact is sure: no PCI-E SiS motherboards are available and it seems there will not be any in the next weeks.

I agree with Bismark: Foxconn does not seem a quality producer (even if at least they seem to improve day by day... their NF4 boards seem very good).

I would really like to know what is the reason why ASRock and SiS don't work together anymore... I think that, generally speaking, ASRock is a better motherboard producer than ECS... maybe ECS uses to make bigger numbers, however if you ask people opinions about ECS they aren't generally good... on the contrary opinions about ASRock are very respectable. So if I had to drop between the two I would choose ECS (even if, sometimes, they are able to produce very good motherboards like 755-A2)... I think that there must be some different reason... maybe Asus decided to force ASRock not to use SiS or maybe SiS didn't like the designs ASRock intended to do (Combo boards are innovative but maybe not enough mainstream).

I only know I would REALLY need a 60-70 Euro SiS PCI-Express motherboard.

Bye!

[bluetooth]

Very unlikely.

[M-1]

Bluetooth,
very unlikely what?

- The story about SiS dropping ASRock because of Asus and so?
- The possibility to have SOME SiS PCI-Express motherboard?

If you mean the second, do you really think that there will not be ANY SiS PCI-E motherboard at all?!?
Is this possible?

Bye!

[bluetooth]

There will be SiS pCi-e boards. it will probably be available as we see the ULi m1695 boards out there.

The world is round. Today they (ASrock) do not have SiS chispets solutions does not mean that they won't have in the future.