AMD / VIA fans will be pleased to discover that VIA Technologies yesterday announced it had started shipping its KT600 (DDR-400 Athlon XP with Native SATA support) chipset to around 20 third party motherboard manufacture partners including ABIT, Acorp, Albatron, Aopen, Asus, Azza, Biostar, Chaintech, DFI, ECS, Epox, FIC, Gigabyte, Jetway, MSI, Shuttle, Soltek, Soyo and QDI.

Taipei, Taiwan, 18 June 2003 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the availability of the VIA Apollo KT600 chipset, set to become the first choice chipset in the market for ultimate performance AMD Athlon™ XP compatible motherboards. The world's first Socket A platform chipset with a native integrated Serial ATA/RAID controller, the KT600 boasts a balanced configuration of 400MHz FSB support for the new Athlon XP processor 3200+ with VIA's FastStream64 DDR400 memory controller technology, as well as advanced connectivity features and VIA Vinyl Audio support.