VIA Gears Up For AMD Turion 64 Launch With New Chipset
VIA Technologies unveiled Friday its new K8N800A core-logic that sports variety of mobile processors from Advanced Micro Devices, such as Athlon 64 and Sempron, as well as the forthcoming Turion 64 chips.
Source: X-Bit Labs“The power efficiency of the new VIA K8N800A chipset facilitates innovative lower profile design for AMD64 processor-based notebooks, and especially those powered by the forthcoming AMD Turion mobile technology,” said Chewei Lin, Vice President of Product Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc..
VIA K8N800A is a revamped version of the K8N800 chipset unveiled back in 2003. The new version provides more advanced input/output (I/O) capabilities and may sport some additional measures aimed to reduce power consumption, such as thinner manufacturing process. The K8N800 graphics and memory hub (GMCH) builds-in S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro integrated graphics processor, sports microprocessors with 800MHz HyperTransport bus, integrated UniChrome graphics core as well as optional AGP graphics. The GMCH may be coupled with VIA’s well-known VT8237 I/O controller.
VIA did not clearly reveal the difference between the K8N800 and K8N800A chips.
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