"VIA had been holding the performance crown on the AMD platform with its “KT” series chipsets until about half a year ago when Nvidia’s Nforce 2 hit the market. The Nforce 2 had VIA beaten both in terms of performance and features. For the next few months, VIA had remained relatively low profile. VIA, however, proved that it is still up for a fight by coming up with the KT600 Northbridge and the VT8237 Southbridge recently."