VIA Commences Volume Shipments of VIA Apollo KT266 Chipset


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Subject: VIA Commences Volume Shipments of VIA Apollo KT266 Chipset
Name: LED
Date: 1/15/2001 10:38:14 AM (GMT-7)
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Words are there at Electric Tech that VIA has begun volume ship its KT266 chipset for the Athlon.

VIA Technologies, Inc today announced it has commenced volume shipments of the VIA Apollo KT266 chipset, delivering powerful new features including DDR266 SDRAM, a 266MHz Front Side Bus, V-Link Hub Architecture, and ATA-100 support to the AMD Socket A platform.

"With its support for DDR266 SDRAM and innovative new high-bandwidth V-Link Hub Architecture, the VIA Apollo KT266 provides OEMs and System Integrators with the scalability and reliability that they need to build a new generation of servers, workstations and PC systems that take full advantage of the enhanced performance capabilities of the AMD Athlon(tm) processor," commented Wenchi Chen, President and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc.

"Today's announcement once again demonstrates VIA's commitment to providing our customers with industry leading solutions for the AMD Socket A platform."

"The VIA Apollo KT266 provides an excellent, high-performance option for our AMD Athlon processor customers. The KT266 with its DDR memory support is able to take advantage of the performance capabilities of the AMD Athlon processor," said Richard Heye, vice-president and general manager of the Texas Microprocessor Division at AMD.

"We are confident that users will benefit from the added system performance that is enabled by the use of the VIA Apollo KT266 feature set with both DDR memory and the award-winning AMD Athlon processor."

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