[H]ardNews 6th Edition

Here is an AthlonXP 1500+ scan sent in by Brad Rogers. While it is apparent that AMD is "burning" the contact point as well as the spanning trace, it is still unclear that the CPU will be hardlocked. Check below in the First Ed. for the original news write-up.

The InqWell has all the scoopage on the latest and greatest VIA chipsets. While we can neither confirm nor deny his statements, I think anyone else would be hard-pressed to prove him wrong.

The KT400, which is a followup to the KT333 for the Athlon which Via is expected to launch on the 20th of this month, supports both Athlon XPs and Durons, has twin 200/266MHz front side bus support, support for DDR333 and DDR400 ECC, AGP 4X and AGP8x and will sample next month, with production in the second quarter.