At VIA DDR Summit in Taipei some mainboard manufacturers showcased their new Socket A mainboards based on VIA KT266 chipset. We decided to particularly dwell on this event, since VIA KT266 promises to be the fastest chipset for AMD Athlon processors. And there is every reason for thinking so. Firstly, KT266 uses V-Link bus with the twice as high bandwidth than that of the ordinary PCI bus to connect the North and the South bridges of the chipset. Secondly, this chipset will support Memory Bank Interleave. As we have already seen in case of other VIA chipsets, this function allows increasing the overall system performance by about 5%.
The table below contains the list of mainboards also showcased at the event:

Mainboard	Form-Factor	DDR DIMM	SDR DIMM	AGP	PCI	AMR ACR CNR	Additional Features
ASUS A7V266	ATX	2	3	AGP Pro	5	1 ACR	C-Media Sound Promise IDE ATA-100 RAID controller
BIOSTAR M7MIA	ATX	2	0	AGP 4x	5	1 AMR	1 ISA
Chaintech 7VJD2	ATX	2	2	AGP 4x	5	1 AMR + 1 CNR	C-Media Sound
FIC AN11	ATX	3	0	AGP 4x	5	1 ACR	Promise IDE ATA-100 RAID controller
Gigabyte GA-7VTX	ATX	3	0	AGP Pro	5	1 AMR	Creative Sound
EPoX EP-8KHA	ATX	3	0	AGP 4x	6	1 CNR	POST/Debug controller
Soltek SL-75DRV	ATX	3	0	AGP Pro	5	1 CNR

If everything goes smoothly, these mainboards as well as some other one will appear in retail in March already.
If you are looking for some pics, then check out the Japanese PCWatch site.