Via KT400A to arrive in a few weeks

AS ALWAYS, THERE WERE too many meetings and there wasn't even time to eat until the evening. Not to mention the writing part, but we found some time to keep you updated after Mageek screamed "where are your stories" yesterday.

Returning to its roots, VIA is ready to introduce an updated version of a previous chipset. Last time that it did it, it lost the famous letter A from the chipset but this time A is officially back. KT400A is just an update of existing technology that will run faster than the KT400.

What we have learned is that it might win some benchmarks but it won't be an Nforce 2 killer. It's official that it won't use dual DDR as was previously suggested so there's not much space for an extraordinary performance increase.

Now it officially supports DDR400 as well as 333 FSB, but not official support for 400 FSB Athlons. That will come later on.

Gigabyte is the first to have the boards ready and it should have it in three to four weeks in the shops. Other vendors will be following shortly. All the vendors need is a final revision of the chipset.

We saw some motherboards presented at booths at Cebit and KT400A was ready for demonstration. This is not the final Socket A chipset from VIA, we can expect at least one more. µ