We got some really cool info concerning VIA’s future strategies, which was revealed at the Platform Conference. Besides the fact that we have already told you about, VIA disclosed a bit info on the new chipsets the company would introduce after PX266 supporting Pentium 4 and dual Foster processors, PC133 or DDR memory, 64bit PCI bus and V-Link with the doubled bandwidth of 533MB/sec.
A bit later, after PX266 comes out in H2 2001m there will be one more new chipset based on it: an integrated chipset for Pentium 4. as for the features, they will remain the same, although V-Link bandwidth will be cut down to 266MB/sec, because this chipset won’t support PCI64.
In the early 2002, VIA is going to introduce some absolutely new DDR chipset solutions for the upcoming Intel Northwood CPU. They will acquire support for DDR SDRAM working at higher 333MHz frequency. As a result, the memory bus bandwidth will grow up to 2.7GB/sec. We should also point out that i850 with dual-channel Rambus will still boast higher memory bus bandwidth: 3.2GB/sec.