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News Release from: VIA Technologies | Subject: South Bridge chipsets
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 November 2006
South Bridge chipsets adopt SPI bus
VIA Technologies has announced support for the advanced SPI bus in all new VIA South Bridge chipsets.
VIA Technologies has announced support for the advanced SPI bus in all new VIA South Bridge chipsets The SPI bus is an advanced I/O bus that makes the support of system BIOS simpler and more cost effective through an onboard BIOS programming module
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The innovative implementation of SPI on VIA-based boards will enable even easier updating, debugging and reprogramming of BIOS, and at even lower cost, by attaching a Flash programming module, such as those from leading provider DediProg, to the easy-to-use onboard connector, even when the computing device is powered down.
VIA will integrate SPI bus support into new VIA chipset product releases to support all leading processor platforms, commencing with the upcoming VIA VT8237S chipset South Bridge, which is sampling now, and will provide manufacturers with greater flexibility in product design and support.
"We are excited to work with VIA to introduce the SPI bus into the feature set of the new VIA chipset products", commented Chong Tsao, Sales Executive, DediProg Technology Co .
"Increasingly, vendors and manufacturers need innovative technology to manage and introduce new features easily into the BIOS, and the SPI bus enables them to easily do this".
"VIA chipsets have a strong tradition of integrating advanced key technologies that reflect our commitment to end-users and mainboard manufacturers alike", commented Chewei Lin, Vice President of Product Marketing, VIA Technologies.
"By supporting the SPI bus, VIA is providing our motherboard customers with greater flexibility in BIOS management and better cost structure".
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