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To: Jeffry K. Smith who wrote (32061)	10/13/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

Via Prepares 133-MHz Chip Set Rival gathers momentum, keeping the pressure on Intel after 820 delay. by Terho Uimonen, IDG News Service October 12, 1999, 4:04 p.m. PT Via Technologies launched its first chip set supporting a faster 133-MHz system bus speed, which the Taiwan vendor says will soon be a standard feature in mainstream PCs. Although only an incremental increase from today's 100-MHz systems, Via's new Apollo Pro133A chip set also supports a range of other features not yet available on systems powered by market leader Intel's current line. Chip sets are key integrated circuits on a PC's motherboard that define its system capabilities. Among the leading-edge features are support for as much as 2GB of PC-100 or PC-133 SDRAM and 4X Accelerated Graphics Ports (AGP). The manufacture of the Apollo Pro133A chip set is subcontracted to National Semiconductor, according to Via, and the device is in production now. If its manufacturing partners are able to crank up production, Via may be well positioned to take advantage of the window of opportunity offered by the delay of Intel's long-awaited 820 chip set. In addition to supporting a similar feature set as the Via offering, Intel's 820 is designed to let PCs use a new and, in theory, much faster memory interface technology from Rambus. Intel, for its part, plans to unveil new Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processors on October 25. At least some of the new Intel processors were originally planned to be able to take advantage of the 820 chip set, and are expected to feature support for a 133-MHz system bus. pcworld.com