Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation decided to remind the world about its first ever Socket A chipset with 400MHz FSB support announced back in early March. Today the company said that seven mainboard makers has already adopted SiS’ latest chipset for AMD Athlon XP processors and mainboards are either on the market or will hit retail shelves shortly.

After mainboard makers met the SiS746 and SiS746FX chipsets very coldly, looks like the adoption of the SiS748 is a successful for SiS so far. The company said today that AK76F-400N from AOpen, K7S8XE from ASRock, KT748 from FIC, 748Delta from MSI, 748-AL from DFI, S748DA from Jetway Information and K7S3 from IWILL will emerge on the market very soon.

General features of SiS748 resemble the capabilities of VIA KT600 and NVIDIA nForce2 400 – support for all possible Socket A processors with up to 400MHz FSB, single-channel PC2100, PC2700 and PC3200 support, AGP 8x and so on. I/O controllers from SiS provide all up to date capabilities, so, the battle on the Socket A market will be hot this Spring and Summer.