Volgens Ace's Hardware (die de info uit een onleesbaar artikel van Digitimes Taiwan heeft) zal VIA in de tweede helft van 2000 een Athlon server chipset releasen. Tot de features behoren support voor Double Data Rate SDRAM, AGP4x en ATA/100:
According to this Digitimes Taiwan report, VIA's server chipset solution will debut in Q2 2000. The Northbridge of the chipset, VT8653, will feature FSB133, DDR-266 and AGP4X among other things. The accompanying Southbridge, VT8233, will support AC-97, 4 USB ports, 1/10/100 MB network transfer rate and UDMA-100, The chipset will be sampling as early as Q2 and motherboards using the chipset are expected to come out in Q3 2000. An integrated version, VT8607, with GX4 graphics adapter integrated will follow in Q3. VIA has not decided if this chipset will be used for Slot-1 or Socket-370 platform yet. As for the K7 platform, VIA will roll out VT8373 with PC133 and DDR support by Q3 2000, and the integrated version, VT8357 with GX4 graphics, by Q4 2000.
