are there modern motherboards with ISA slots for *AMD* processors?

Dan Lenski wrote:
And that's it... basically only one vendor, and only one processor
family supported. I haven't found any others that support AMD
processors at all. No Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/F. Does anyone know of any
motherboards for modern AMD processors that have ISA slots? Is there
any technical impediment to producing one... such as lack of chipset
support?


I'd say no, there may not be a technical impediment to building one,
just a marketing impediment. Since AMD's marketshare is smaller than
Intel's, the diversity in motherboard featureset is smaller too.

Yousuf Khan

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:58 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

Dan Lenski wrote:
And that's it... basically only one vendor, and only one processor
family supported. I haven't found any others that support AMD
processors at all. No Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/F. Does anyone know of any
motherboards for modern AMD processors that have ISA slots? Is there
any technical impediment to producing one... such as lack of chipset
support?


I'd say no, there may not be a technical impediment to building one,
just a marketing impediment. Since AMD's marketshare is smaller than
Intel's, the diversity in motherboard featureset is smaller too.

Yousuf Khan

Well, ok, but what difference does it make when the demand is virtually zero?

Cheers

daytripper wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:58 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
I'd say no, there may not be a technical impediment to building one,
just a marketing impediment. Since AMD's marketshare is smaller than
Intel's, the diversity in motherboard featureset is smaller too.

Yousuf Khan

Well, ok, but what difference does it make when the demand is virtually zero?

Cheers

Well, that's exactly the point, when the demand is nearly zero, the
demand is closer to zero for AMD boards than it would be for Intel boards.

Yousuf Khan

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:31:23 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

Well, that's exactly the point, when the demand is nearly zero, the
demand is closer to zero for AMD boards than it would be for Intel
boards.

Yousuf Khan

That's true... and back in the dinosaur days when ISA slots were
prevalent, Intel was the only serious game in town for x86 processors.

Now, AMD has a substantial share, and its products are seen as
competitive with Intel's in a variety of market segments.

But probably any system that has an ISA slot and needs to be upgraded
originally had an Intel processor...

Dan

Dan Lenski wrote:
That's true... and back in the dinosaur days when ISA slots were
prevalent, Intel was the only serious game in town for x86 processors.

Now, AMD has a substantial share, and its products are seen as
competitive with Intel's in a variety of market segments.

But probably any system that has an ISA slot and needs to be upgraded
originally had an Intel processor...


I don't think that's the problem, AMD was around making processors when
ISA was prevalent too. It's just that when ISA was prevalent, AMD was
making an earlier generation of processors, and so was Intel. So unless
you want to buy one of those earlier generation systems, everyone has
moved on from there. With Intel's larger marketshare motherboard makers
can afford to create more specialized boards for them that have
anachronistic interfaces on them.

Yousuf Khan