Looking back at 2000 - Part 1: CPUs, Chipsets, Motherboards

VIA grows into a leader

By this time, two very interesting things were taking place.  On one side, the first generation of KT133 based motherboards for AMD's Socket-A CPUs were surprisingly mature.  VIA seemed to have gotten at least part of the formula for a successful chipset launch right as we trusted this platform enough to outfit six of our own web servers with KT133 based motherboards. 

We also started to see dual processor motherboards based on VIA's Apollo Pro 133A chipset appear.  We thought we'd never see the words VIA and dual processor used in the same sentence; our little VIA has definitely grown up. 

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