In February VIA launched the Apollo KT333 chipset onto a suspecting world+dog. At the time, the Taiwanese chipset house (it prefers to call itself a core logic business these days), said that 40-50 per cent of new mobos would support DDR333 fast memory by the end of the year. Some industry observers raised their eyebrows.
But there's little sign yet of VIA revising its projections. Yesterday the company published a
press release in which it boasted of its "success of the VIA Apollo KT333 chipset in becoming the first choice platform in the market for AMD Athlon XP compatible motherboards".
And it names its KT333 mobo design wins - all 20 of them. The list is as follows: Microstar, Asus, Gigabyte, ECS, Epox, ABIT, Chaintech, Acorp, Shuttle, Aopen, FIC, Soyo, Biostar, DFI, Luckystar, Soltek, Jetway, Albatron, Azza and QDI.
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