[H]ardNews 1st Edition - Press Releases

SiS DDR2 Support:

SiS, today announced its next-generation DDR2-667MHz chipset SiS656 – featured at Computex Taipei – is the only core logic chipset on the market that supports high-speed DDR2-667 memory. The SiS656 is the first SiS chipset to support PCI Express x16. It also boasts a high-speed DDR2-667MHz memory controller, exhibiting SiS’ cutting-edge engineering in the development of high-speed memory interfaces.

SiS165 WLAN:

SiS, today announced the launch of the latest single-chip Medium Access Controller (MAC) and Baseband Processors (BBP) to support the IEEE 802.11a/b/g standards, the SiS165 and the USB compatible SiS165U. These SiS WLAN solutions promise to be the smallest, lightest and least power consuming on the market, while providing exceptional performance.

Athlon64 & K8T800Pro:

VIA Technologies, Inc, today announced that the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset, which has been optimized for the new AMD Athlon™ 64 processors, features official support for the 1GHz/16-bit HyperTransport™ technology bus. By increasing the bi-directional HyperTransport technology link from 800MHz, as featured on previous VIA K8 Series chipsets, to 1GHz, the total theoretical bandwidth between the system's processor and the VIA K8T800 Pro is increased to an impressive 8.0GB/s

VIA Sales Report:

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced net sales for May 2004 of NT$1.38 billion (US$41.22 million approximately). On a sequential basis, this monthly sales revenue represents a 9.77% decrease over April’s figure of NT$1.52 billion (US$45.68 million approximately).