Hilko schrijft: "Bij Ace's Hardware kwam ik het heugelijke feit tegen dat Asus nu eindelijk officieel het Athlon platform ondersteunt. In de press release staat dat men met de levering is begonnen, dus we zouden het bord nu moeten kunnen kopen. Dit zou betekenen dat Asus als één van de eerste fabrikanten met een KX133 plankje op de markt komt":
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, 10 March 2000 - ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (ASUS), a world leader in the IT industry, announced today the start of shipment of ASUS K7V motherboard.The K7V is the first motherboard to support the recently released 1GHz (1,000MHz) AMD AthlonTM processors. This announcement came just four days after AMD officially announced the commencement of shipments of the processors, which has been hailed as an industry milestone. The K7V is being touted as the successor to the highly successful K7M Athlon motherboard. With ASUS ASIC plus VIA Apollo KX133, and a two-chip set consisting of VT8371 North Bridge controller and VT82C686A South Bridge controller chipset, this brings the AMD AthlonTM processor platform to a higher level of performance for desktop PCs. ASUS has also released another member for the K7V family, the K7V-RM, which boasts most of the features of the K7V in a smaller microATX form factor, while K7V will be using an ATX form factor.
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