VIA to ship PCI Express P4 chipset at month-end

[Julio Franco]

VIA Technologies will begin small-volume deliveries of its third 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) Pentium 4 (P4) chipset – the PT890 – at the end of this month, according to local motherboard makers.

Several board makers have received engineering samples of the PT890 from VIA and expect to complete circuit design at month-end.

Read more: Digitimes.

 

[agissi]

wow PCI Express already on the ball! [sooner then I expected]

 

[Federelli]

Yes, a lot sooner, we can expect ATI's and NVIDIA's answer soon enough
Let's see if PCIE does the job it's supossed to