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News Release from: VIA Technologies | Subject: VIA K8T890 chipset
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 October 2004
VIA Announces K8T890
VIA K8T890 Series chipsets open up the AMD64 processor platform to PCI Express, providing the bandwidth needed for todays most demanding applications and the headroom needed for future growth
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the VIA K8T890 chipset, enabling advanced PCI Express connectivity on motherboards for the latest AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, and AMD Sempron processors The VIA K8T890 chipset is designed to fully accommodate the increased multimedia demands being placed on the PC through applications such as high definition video creation, multistreaming audio and the latest 3D game engines that require ever-increasing levels of system bandwidth
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Featuring the unique VIA Flex Express Architecture, the VIA K8T890 chipset provides support for the latest high performance PCI Express x16 graphics cards, benefiting from a blistering 4GB/s of bandwidth, both upstream and downstream.
The K8T890 chipset also supports up to four PCI Express x1 connections, each offering 250MB/s bandwidth per direction to a wide range of high bandwidth peripheral devices approximately double the maximum theoretical bandwidth provided by existing PCI 2.2 peripheral connections.
Among the peripheral devices most likely to benefit from the increased bandwidth will be Gigabit Ethernet connections and bandwidth hungry HDTV tuner cards, which will be able to perform to their full potential without the constraints of limited bus bandwidth.
"With the arrival of the VIA K8T890 Series chipsets, VIA continues its strong leadership on the AMD platform, delivering the features, performance, and stability that our customers have come to expect," commented Wenchi Chen, CEO VIA Technologies "By enabling PCI Express we believe that all the pieces are in place on the AMD64 processor platform, meaning all users can now upgrade to a 64-bit AMD processor, safe in the knowledge they have a future proof platform." "As one of our premier partners, we are very pleased to see VIA bring PCI Express support to the AMD64 platform," commented Marty Seyer, corporate vice president and general manager of AMDs Microprocessor Business Unit.
"Combining the phenomenal bandwidth of PCI Express connectivity with HyperTransport technology as well as the latest high-performance graphics cards and peripheral devices, customers can continue to unleash the full performance potential of AMD64 technology.".
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