Later this year or early next year, Acer Laboratories and Silicon Integrated Systems will also launch chipsets that work with Duron, he said.

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There are other smaller players in the market such as VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS) that might have greater flexibility to address specific market needs, but do not have the requisite financial resources to do so when it comes to discrete graphics, AMD and Nvidia are the only two companies that one needs to watch out for.

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