VIA maakt twee varianten van haar onderweg zijnde KT333 chipset, meldt The Inquirer. Het gaat om de KT333 en de KT333A. De KT333 is "in feite niet meer dan een KT266A chipset met DDR333 support", zo wordt gesteld. De KT333A zal nieuwe features meekrijgen zoals V-link 533MB/s technologie en AGP 8x support. V-link zal geïmplementeerd worden via een nieuwe southbridge, die tevens USB 2.0 ondersteuning zal bieden. Over de lanceerdatum wordt nog driftig gespeculeerd:
[...] and these new features will come several weeks after initial launch of "non" A 333 chipset.
Sources even closer to Via responded to our last article and said that the KT-333 was now unlikely to launch until the 20th of February this year.
Other independent sources confirmed Jan 17th as final date but that date is subject to change, like all of these announcements.
The significance of this is that Via will continue its strategy where revision A is a better performer than the Vanilla version. But SIS is already sampling the SIS 745 on boards, putting further pressure on a launch date.
ErikSteffens gaf ons de tip, waarvoor dank.