VIA Technologies today announced that the VIA PT890 performance chipset has been selected by Fujitsu Siemens for two of their leading SCALEO series consumer PCs.
Integrated into the SCALEO J and P series, the VIA PT890 platform supports 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processors with a 1066Mhz FSB, and the unique StepUp memory technology to provide support for both DDR and DDR2 memory standards on the same motherboard.
Optimized to work seamlessly with the latest PCI Express graphics cards, the VIA PT890 includes support for x16 PCI Express connectivity, delivering up to 4GB/s of dedicated graphics bandwidth per direction. The VIA PT890 also features additional x1 PCI Express peripheral support, providing 250MB/s per direction bandwidth to PCI Express peripheral devices such as Gigabit Ethernet and HDTV tuner cards.
