VIA Discrete Chipset Plans

by Anna Filatova
01/18/2001 | 11:40 PM

We received a word from one of our sources, who told us about the changes made to VIA’s plans in the chipset market. Namely, we are going to give you an update on the upcoming discrete chipsets from this developer:

For Intel Platform:

• VT8633 (Pro266). This chipset will feature P6 bus (Pentium III CPU, etc.), PC133 SDRAM and DDR SDRAM support, V-Link (this bus between the North and the South Bridges will boast 266MB/sec bandwidth), AGP 4x.
  Mass manufacturing of Pro266 chipset started in December 2000.
• VT82C694T (Pro133T). This chipset will support Tualatin processors (Pentium III manufactured with 0.13 micron technology), PC133 SDRAM and AGP 4x. it is practically a version of the good old VIA Apollo Pro133 supporting Tualatin CPUs.
  The first engineering samples will be available in March 2001.
• VT8633 (Pro266T). This chipset is intended for Tualatin processors (0.13 micron Pentium III). It will support: PC133 SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, V-Link, AGP 4x. It will go with the additional VPX chip responsible for the support of four 64bit 66MHz PCI slots.
  Engineering samples of this chipset will be available in February 2001.
• VT8753 (PX266). This chipset is aimed at dual-processor systems with Pentium 4 (it is most likely to be for Foster, because Pentium 4 Willamette doesn’t support SMP-configurations). It will support PC133 SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, V-Link with 533MB/sec bus bandwidth, AGP 4x, VPX chip (four 64bit 66MHz PCI slots).
  Engineering samples of this chipset will be available in H2 2001.

• VT8363A (KT133A). This is a modification of KT133 chipset supporting 266MHz FSB.
  Mass manufacturing of KT133A chipset has already started.
• VT8366 (KT266). This chipset supports 200/266MHz FSB, PC133 SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, V-link with 266MB/sec bus bandwidth.
  Mass manufacturing of KT266 started this month.