VIA Technologies announced that its VIA K8T890 series chipsets will support the new AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processor and AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+.

The PCIe-enabled K8T890 Series supports up to five PCI Express devices directly into the chipset North Bridge and a total of 20 PCIe lanes for a combined bandwidth of 10GB/s. The K8T890 Series chipsets include support for the latest PCI Express x16 graphics cards, and up to four PCI Express x1 connections, such as Gigabit Ethernet and HDTV tuner cards.

Future versions of the K8T890 Series will include the VIA DualGFX Express feature, a solution that stands ready to support all dual graphics card industry standards. The DualGFX Express provides enhanced single application performance with supporting graphics cards and multi-monitor support.

The K8T890 chipset also features asynchronous bus architecture, providing improved system optimization options.

The K8T890 series chipsets will begin shipping to motherboard manufacturers and system integrators this month, with the first products expected to be available in November 2004

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