Volgens The Inquirer is VIA achter de schermen al druk bezig met hun P4X266 opvolger, de P4M333. Hoewel de naam anders doet vermoeden zal de chipset uitgerust zijn met de nieuwe Quad Band Memory technologie. Deze technologie gebruikt conventionele DDR-modules welke op viervoudige snelheid benaderd worden. Dit resulteert in een bandbreedte van 4,2GB/s, waar de DDR333-chips blijven steken op 2,7GB/s. In samenwerking met de Pentium 4 CPU's op 533MHz, welke we ook volgend jaar kunnen verwachten, een veelbelovende technologie, aldus The Inquirer:
Quad Band Memory [QBM] uses existing DDR devices (2.1 GB/sec bandwidth) or to say DDR 266 and delivers the bandwidth expected from future memory devices such as DDR2 and ADT (4.2 GB/sec bandwidth). VIA is not alone in this project but we will speak more about this later. One thing is sure, Rambus will come into hard times and Via will certainly have a chipset capable of supplying P4 FSB with magical 533 MHZ with enough bandwidth.We think the Via P4X333 will be quite a performance surprise even though sometimes Via acts all green and innocent as if they've just somehow stumbled into this market by mistake. Via might have to change the P4 bit of P4X333 to prevent actions from you know who, and might call it P4X533 instead. There's a few months before the chipset samples.
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