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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (29986)3/1/2001 1:48:33 PM
From: peter_lucRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
VIA Chipsets Roadmap

This is from Hardware Virtual Zone: vr-zone.com

"We have posted the information before so we decided to consolidate all information and present here :

Northbridge Chipsets

VT8367 (Apollo KT266)

0.35 micron, 3 metal layer process technology
Socket A Duron/Athlon, 2-way SMP
4GB DDR266 SDRAM Up to 2.1GB/s bandwidth
266MHz Front Side Bus
V-Link Hub Architecture
Sampling : Aug '00 / Production : Nov '00

VT8634? (Apollo Pro266T)

Celeron/Pentium III, Tualatin PIII, 2-way SMP
PC133/DDR266
266MHz Front Side Bus
V-Link Hub Architecture
VPX 64Bit PCI (PCI-X)
Sampling : Q1 '01

VT8653 (Pro PX266)

Support Northwood(478) & Willamette (478/423)
PC133/DDR266
266MHz/533Mhz Quad Pumped Bus
V-Link Hub Architecture
VPX 64Bit PCI (PCI-X)
Sampling : H2 '01

VT8??? (Apollo Pro 2002)

IA-64 ( Foster / Hammer ) 8-way SMP? ( Workstation/Server )
DDR 333 ( DDR-I )
533Mhz Front Side Bus
V-Link Hub Architecture
VPX 64Bit PCI ( PCI-X )
InfiniBand?
Sampling : H1 '02

Southbridge Chipsets

VT8233

Link bus between the chipset North and South bridges
AC’97 codec, 6 USB 1.1 ports, HomePNA, 10/100 Base-T
2 ATA/100 channels, IO APIC
Sampling : Now

VT8233C

Similar to VT8233 South Bridge.
3Com communicational part
Sampling Q1 2001
Mass production end of Q2 2001

VT8235

8/16bit V-Link
6 USB 2.0 ports
Integrated DSL or Wireless
Engineering samples are due in Q3 2001

VT8237

HPT-PCI bridge (HyperTransport technology is a point-to-point bus technology that offers greater bandwidth)
Advanced PCI bus system
6 USB 2.0 ports
Integrated DSL or Wireless
Engineering samples in Q4 2001"

Peter