VIA Technologies today confirmed its commitment to AMD Athlon XP platforms by announcing its new KT600 and KM400A core-logic products. The new chipsets fully support AMD Athlon XP 3200+ processor with 400MHz EV-6 FSB announced earlier today and offer the same set of features as their predecessors, the KT400A and KM400.

VIA KT600 chipset has a lot in common with the KT400A product, it supports all Socket A Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron processors with 200, 266 333 and now 400MHz EV-6 system bus, it support up to 4GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) DDR SDRAM, it offers AGP 8x slot and also utilises 8x V-Link architecture to connect North and South Bridges. Just like its predecessor, the KT600 also implements FastStream64 memory controller technology which uses an expanded array of prefetch buffers to reduce latency in the memory controller.

VIA KM400A chipset is another pseudo-new solution from VIA Technologies that adds 400MHz FSB support to the KM400 chipset unveiled a month ago. The main advantage of both VIA KM400 and KM400A is integrated S3 Graphics’ UniChrome 2D/3D AGP graphics core with built-in MPEG-2 decoder and DuoView technology for multi-monitor support, though, KM400 also features external AGP 8x graphics port for those, who do not feel satisfaction with the integrated graphics core.

Both new North Bridges can be coupled with either VT8235 or VT8237 I/O controllers.

Pricing and availability of the newcomers is unknown.