VIA Hardware has posted the first part of their IDF coverage.

That´s not to say AMD´s presence was huge at IDF, but you could certainly sense the pressure put on Intel by their biggest rival. AMD760 based boards were displayed without fear in many of the DRAM producers booth´s, something that surely would not have been tolerated at past IDF events.

VIA also had a particularly strong presence this year, especially among the major DRAM manufacturers. Hyundai, Toshiba, Micron, and Samsung all had VIA chipsets on display in one form or another. NEC was even showing off the K7T266 Pro, a VIA KT266 chipset board with an NEC USB 2.0 controller integrated onboard.

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