Taipei, Taiwan, November 22 2005 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that VIA's latest high performance chipset for the AMD platform, the VIA K8T900, is sampling to leading motherboard partners to create platforms tailored for the PC enthusiast market.

Integrating VIA's proprietary RapidFire technology that incorporates a number of PCI Express enhancements, the VIA K8T900 offers exceptional performance across the board, while also featuring industry leading low power consumption. With the Flex Express architecture the VIA K8T900 supports advanced connectivity options including dual x8 PCI Express connections for the latest multi-graphics card configurations or alternatively a standard single x16 PCI Express graphics connection. In combination with the VIA VT8251 South Bridge the K8T900 platform offers unparalled peripheral support with an additional six x1 PCI Express connections, as well as supporting up to four high speed SATA 3.0Gb/s hard drives, and VIA Vinyl High Definition audio.

"The VIA K8T900 chipset continues a strong path of support for all market segments of the AMD platform," commented Chewei Lin, Vice President of Product Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. "VIA's high performance RapidFire technology, combined with dual x8 PCI Express graphics connections, makes VIA K8T900 an unbeatable platform for the enthusiast community delivering high levels of performance, a premium feature set, and unparalleled stability and compatibility."

VIA has also been working very closely with S3 Graphics to ensure support for upcoming MultiChrome technology enabling two or more Chrome S27 cards to operate together enabling higher levels of 3D acceleration. To ensure premium support for MultiChrome configurations, the VIA K8T900's dual x8 PCI Express connections ensure plenty of graphics bandwidth, together with special attention to chipset features that enable high speed communication between the graphic cards without the need for special connectors or cables.

"MultiChrome technology is a standard feature in all graphics cards based on our Chrome S27 graphics processors providing a powerful upgrade path for gamers looking for cost effective high performance 3D action," commented Dr. Ken Weng , General Manager of S3 Graphics. "S3 Graphics has been working very closely with VIA in the development of our MultiChrome technology, and based on its outstanding performance we certainly consider VIA K8T900 as today's premium platform to support MultiChrome configurations."

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