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To: Dave B who wrote (54130)	9/19/2000 9:21:24 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Via announces two PC chip sets that supports DDR SDRAM By Semiconductor Business News Sep 19, 2000 (3:20 PM) URL: semibiznews.com TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Via Technologies Inc. here today announced a pair of PC chip sets that will help OEMs make a swift transition towards the double-data-rate SDRAM memory standard. The company's new VIA Apollo Pro266 and VIA Apollo KT266 family of chip sets will enable OEMs to support DDR SDRAM as the next-generation memory standard for high-performance PCs, servers, workstations, and other systems, said Wen-Chi-Chen, president and chief executive of Via. "With the launch of the VIA Apollo Pro266 and VIA Apollo KT266, Via is enabling a rapid industry-wide transition to DDR memory on leading processor platforms," Chen said. "DDR provides the most appropriate memory solution for solving the system performance bottleneck while leveraging the cost benefits of the existing SDRAM infrastructure." With support for DDR-266 DRAM products, the VIA Apollo Pro266 and VIA Apollo KT266 chip sets are said to double memory data throughput in systems to 2.1-Gbytes per second. To ensure a smooth migration path in existing systems, the two chip sets also support PC133 and VCM DRAM. Both products also include a 133-MHz front-side-bus, AGP4X, and ATA-100 interface. The chip sets also includes a new high-speed, low-latency V-Link bus that doubles the communication bandwidth between the North and South Bridge to 266-Mbytes per second. The VIA Apollo Pro266 is the first DDR-enabled chipset that support Intel Corp.'s Pentium III processors, while the VIA Apollo KT266 is geared for Advanced Micro Device Inc.'s Athlon line of MPUs. Both chip sets are now available for $40 in volume quantities.