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New Integrated Mainboards from Shuttle

by Anna Filatova
01/29/2001 | 08:22 PM

Well, the situation with the mainboards on VIA PM133/PL133 chipsets has become very interesting. Although VIA has been manufacturing these chipsets since May 2000, you will hardly find any mainboards based on them in retail stores. Nevertheless, every respected company considers it "a must" to have VIA PM133/PL133 based boards on their product list. Today for instance, we got a word that Shuttle announced two new mysterious products like that.

MV17E. This is a Socket370 MicroATX mainboard based on VIA Apollo PM133 chipset, i.e. equipped with the integrated S3 Savage4 graphics core. The board features 2 DIMM slots, 1 AGP, 1 AMR and 2 PCI slots. It supports ATA/100 storage interface, AG97 sound and 4 USB ports.
MV16E. This mainboard is just the same as the previous one, with that only difference that it is based on VIA PL133 and hence doesn’t support external AGP graphics.

It’s hard to say whether we will ever see these mainboards selling. The products like that are usually sold to OEMs and system integrators.

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