VIA annuncia l'adozione del K8T890 dai Motherboard Manufactu

[Staff]

<br><blockquote><i>Taipei, Taiwan, October 22 2004, - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced widespread support for the VIA K8T890 chipset from leading PC motherboard manufacturers, delivering PCI Express graphics and peripheral support for the AMD Platform. <p>

VIA K8T890 Series chipsets support a complete range of AMD Athlon™ 64, Athlon 64 FX, Opteron™, and Sempron™ processors, delivering high performance, comprehensive features, and solid reliability. Featuring a PCI Express x16 connection with up to 8GB/s of dedicated graphics bandwidth, VIA K8T890 Series chipsets are optimized to work seamlessly with the latest PCI Express graphics cards, and also provide up to four PCI Express x1 connections to high-bandwidth peripheral devices.<p>

“In addition to offering unparalleled performance, features, and stability, VIA K8T890 Series chipsets also offer the industry’s most flexible PCI Express implementation available,” commented Chewei Lin, Vice President of Product Marketing, VIA. “For our partners this means that they can deliver solutions with extensive PCI Express connectivity to ensure customers a future proof platform to support the latest PC peripherals.”<p>

Widespread Industry Support for VIA K8T890 Series Chipsets<br>
Among the first motherboard manufacturers to announce products based around the advanced architecture VIA K8T890 Series chipset are ABIT, ASUS, EPoX, Gigabyte and MSI.<p>

"ABIT's VIA-based motherboards have already been named as the Ultimate DOOM3 motherboards. With the arrival of the VIA K8T890 chipset based AX8 from ABIT, gamers around the world have the ultimate gaming upgrade. With AMD K8 CPU support and the first to offer PCI Express for the AMD platform, this platform is unquestionably the board to have right now." said Scott Thirlwell, Marketing Director of ABIT.<p>

“By harnessing the power and flexible options of the VIA K8T890 chipset, the A7V-E works seamlessly with AMD64 processors, and the latest PCI Express graphics cards to provide an unsurpassed 3D graphics and digital multimedia experience.” said Joe Hsieh, Director of ASUS Motherboard Business. <p>

“By enabling PCI Express support for the AMD64 platform, the VIA K8T890 chipset is providing AMD users the ability to upgrade with piece of mind that they have a future proof system,” commented Timothy Hsu, Product marketing manager, EPoX. “EPoX’s new EP-8HEAI leverages the advanced VIA Flex Express Architecture of the VIA K8T890 chipset to provide blistering performance and rock-solid stability for a new generation PCI Express enabled Athlon 64 motherboards.”<p>

“The GA-K9VT890 offers the perfect platform for end-users and system integrators wanting to move to a PCI Express compatible motherboard for AMD64 processors” commented Tony Liao, Associate Vice President, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. “The VIA K8T890 chipset delivers the right balance of performance, stability and flexibility, as well as providing unmatched connectivity and I/O options to ensure our customers get the most from GIGABYTE's motherboard.”<p>

“The combination of the VIA K8T890 chipset’s advanced architecture and MSI’s proven expertise in motherboard design and engineering provides the ultimate platform for a generation of users who have been waiting for a high-performance and future proof PCI Express compatible platform.” commented Charles Jiang, Vice President of R&D Division, MSI.</i></blockquote><p>