Carl:
Your DDR chipsets are here.
john
electronicnews.com
VIA Debuts Two DDR DRAM Chipsets
Sep 20, 2000 --- VIA Technologies Inc. of Taipei, Taiwan, continued its commitment to DDR DRAM today with the launch of two chipsets specifically designed for the memory standard.
VIA’s Apollo Pro266 and VIA Apollo KT266 scaleable chipsets have been designed for both the Intel Socket 370 and AMD Socket A processor platforms. VIA said the chipsets are capable of doubling memory data throughput and reaching a peak memory bandwidth of 2.1GBytes per second. The chipsets also feature a 133MHz Front Side Bus, AGP4X, ATA-100 support, and a high-speed low-latency V-Link bus to double the communication bandwidth between the North and South Bridge to 266MByes per second.
“With the launch of the VIA Apollo Pro266 and VIA Apollo KT266, VIA is enabling a rapid industry-wide transition to DDR memory on both the leading processor platforms,” said Wen Chi Chen, president and chief executive officer of VIA, in a statement. “DDR provides the most appropriate memory solution for solving the system performance bottleneck while leveraging the cost benefits of the existing SDRAM infrastructure.”
The Apollo Pro266 has been designed for use with single and dual Intel Pentium III processors, in addition to Intel Celeron and VIA Cyrix processors. The Apollo KT266 is for use with AMD Athlon processors. Both chipsets feature AGP4X and ATA-100 support, a new high-speed V-Link bus, integrated six channel advanced audio, six USB ports, LPC bus, and integrated 10/100Mbps Ethernet and Home PNA, the chipmaker said.
The VIA Apollo Pro266 and the VIA Apollo KT266 are manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in a 0.22-micron, 3 metal layer process, and are priced at $40 each in OEM quantities. |
