Via hasn't changed stance on DDR 400

REPORTS ON A TAIWANESE wire yesterday that suggested Via and SIS were scaling down their support for chipsets and motherboards using DDR 400 memory are at least 50% incorrect, we can reveal.

A representative from large chipset manufacturer Via said that his firm hadn't changed its position on supporting DDR 400 on its products.

Via has not officially said that chipsets it will make will support the up-and-coming memory standard, but it's widely assumed that its products will.

DDR 400 is not an officially ratified standard by the JEDEC memory commissariat, but memory modules are already available on the market.

Indeed, the INQUIRER reviewed two such memory products, with benchmarks, yesterday.

The current leading edge memory type is DDR 333. Intel is officially expected announce support for such memories on October the 7th.

The report, on Digitimes, suggested that SIS as well as Via would suspend production of chipsets using DDR 400 memory. But we've had neither a confirmation nor a denial from the other Taiwanese chipset firm as yet. µ