KT400A kommt Ende Februar..

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WE'VE ALREADY WRITTEN about this chipset but now we have some more details to add as the KT400A is very close to introduction.

We should see a lot of design wins at Cebit this year and we assume that everybody that had a KT400 board will have KT400A revision boards as well.

KT400 lost its performance crown to Nvidia's quite successful Nforce 2. That uses a fast 128bit memory interface and many suggested that VIA would use the same approach. But that would be too big a modification to be just called KT400A.

KT400A will have the official DDR400 support that the KT400 version didn't have. The earlier chipset only officially supported DDR333 as the DDR400 standard had not been ratified at the time.

There will be some performance increase but we were advised not to hold our breath and not expect too much in terms of performance.

It will go into mass production in April and that's the timeframe when these boards are expected.

One definitely new thing is the 8237 Southbridge that will be similar to Intel's IC5. It will have 8 USB 2.0 and Serial ATA. That's on top of the stuff you can find in the earlier 8235 that is shipped with KT400 boards.

We assume that this will be the last VIA Athlon socket A chipset and that it will soon be time for a Hammer chipset, hopefully this fall.