Just got word that Amdmb.com have posted the first Review of VIA's KT400A Chipset! Here's a snip.
As our benchmarks will show, the KT400A is definitely an improvement over the KT400 chipset. But what actually changed on the chipset for this to happen, and why didn?t it happen earlier? While VIA was visiting Amdmb.com, I asked them these same questions and the answer to the second one was very interesting. VIA Technologies most prominent chipset designer, Wennie Chen, the mind behind the KT133A and KT266A chipsets, during the design phase of the original KT400 chipset was hard at work on the K8T400 series of chipsets for the AMD Hammer processors and thus unable to contribute a large amount of work into the Socket A chipsets then. However, now that that K8T400 is all but finalized, Wennie Chen was put to work on the KT400A ? a move that proved to be very good for VIA.
As our benchmarks will show, the KT400A is definitely an improvement over the KT400 chipset. But what actually changed on the chipset for this to happen, and why didn?t it happen earlier? While VIA was visiting Amdmb.com, I asked them these same questions and the answer to the second one was very interesting. VIA Technologies most prominent chipset designer, Wennie Chen, the mind behind the KT133A and KT266A chipsets, during the design phase of the original KT400 chipset was hard at work on the K8T400 series of chipsets for the AMD Hammer processors and thus unable to contribute a large amount of work into the Socket A chipsets then. However, now that that K8T400 is all but finalized, Wennie Chen was put to work on the KT400A ? a move that proved to be very good for VIA.
