

Officials at Acer Laboratories have confirmed that Intel has granted the company a license to use Intel’s 800-MHz front-side bus.

The agreement allows yet another company to use Intel’s 800-MHz bus, including Via Technologies, which signed a cross-licensing deal with Intel, and Silicon Integrated Systems Inc.

On the other hand, ALI has virtually withdrawn from the chipset market, spinning off its PC core logic business into a separate subsidiary called ULi Electronics, which Taiwan foundry owns a small stake it. ALI employees did not indicate whether or not ULi would have access to the technology. Intel representatives confirmed that ALI has taken a license, but declined to comment further.

Terms of the license were not disclosed.