by Anton Shilov
08/27/2002 | 12:19 PM
VIA Technologies has announced that they will host a seminar dedicated to AGP 8x standard tomorrow, on the 28th of August, at the Taipei International Convention Center, Taiwan. The company wants to demonstrate how its latest P4X400 and KT400 core-logic devices perform with the next-generation graphics cards supporting AGP 8x.
VIA will be joined by Microsoft and leading graphics developers ATI and NVIDIA in highlighting the importance of AGP 8x to the industry. This will be followed by extensive validation testing of premium performance Socket 478 and Socket A motherboards available from a broad spectrum of manufacturers, including Abit, Albatron, Acorp, Aopen, Azza, Biostar, Chaintech, DFI, ECS, EpoX, Giga-Byte, Iwill, Jetway, Micro-Star, Shuttle, Soltek, Soyo and Tyan.<%BANNER[article]%>
It is clear that ATI will showcase their top of the line, the long-awaited RADEON 9700 PRO, but I am not sure what is NVIDIA going to offer us. It is not very likely that they will show the NV30, so, it will be quite logical to think that the Santa-Clara based GPU developer will demonstrate something like NV28 or NV18, AGP 8x supporting versions of GeForce4 Ti and GeForce4 MX.
Nobody knows what NVIDIA is going to show us, but we will know this tomorrow for sure. Not a lot of time to wait, isn`t it? By the way, where is VIA`s archrival SiS, who is the first to announce AGP 8x?