According to The Inquirer, VIA is going to start shipping the first test samples of its new KT400 chipset a bit later than they have initially expected: in April (at first they claimed they would do it in March, as we told you here already). The mass production is scheduled for Q2 2002, as they have initially planned.

Let me remind you briefly that KT400 is a fully-fledged new chipset from VIA intended for AMD CPUs and supporting DDR400 (PC320), AGP 8x, 533MB/sec V-Link bus. It will feature a new VT8235 South Bridge (533MB/sec V-Link and USB 2.0). I would also like to mention that DDR400 standard may not be approved by the JEDEC committee at all (though I personally still believe it will be approved anyway), so PC3200 DDR SDRAM support in KT400 may appear not quite official. As for the new CE chipset revision of KT333, which we have last mentioned here, I prefer to refrain from recalling the details on it...