Taipei, Taiwan, VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that VIA’s latest high performance chipset for the AMD platform, the VIA K8T900, is sampling to leading motherboard partners to create platforms tailored for the PC enthusiast market.

Designed to support a complete range of AMD Athlon 64, and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors, the VIA K8T900 delivers a leading edge platform for PC Enthusiasts. Featuring VIA RapidFire technology for leading performance, the VIA K8T900 also integrates a single x16 PCI Graphics card connection or alternatively two x8 PCI Express connections supporting for the latest high performance multi graphics card configurations. In addition the VIA K8T900 supports an additional four x1 PCI Express connections to the latest PCI Express peripheral devices. In combination with the latest VIA VT8251 South Bridge the VIA K8T900 platform offers leading edge connectivity with support for an additional two x1 PCI Express connections, four SATA 3.0Gb/s connections with VIA V-RAID support, and the VIA Vinyl Audio suite including support for High Definition audio. VIA K8T900 is also designed to be pin-for-pin compatible with existing VIA K8T890 chipset platforms.

News Source: VIA Technologies

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