VIA Technologies announced yet another chipset for mobile processors from Advanced Micro Devices. VIA ProSavage KN400 is designed for broad range of products starting from desktop replacement systems to thin and light notebook designs.

VIA ProSavage KN400 supports all Socket A (and probably mPGA) Athlon XP-M processors with 200, 266 and 333MHz EV-6 system bus, including the latest Athlon XP-M 2400+ processor based on the Barton core. Basically speaking, VIA’s KN400 is the only core-logic for mobile AMD platforms that supports 333MHz system bus as well as the latest Athlon XP-M CPUs with 512KB of L2 cache. VIA KN400 can work with up to 3GBs of different types of memory, including PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) DDR SDRAM. ProSavage KN400 also features integrated S3 Graphics’ UniChrome 2D/3D AGP graphics core with built-in MPEG-2 decoder. KN400 is the first ever mobile core-logic with AGP 8x support.

ProSavage KN400 North Bridge can be accompanied by VT8235CE or VT8237 South Bridges, providing a very feature-rich I/O solution. VIA VT8237 supports up to 6 PCI slots (such amount of PCI slots will hardly ever be needed in notebooks), 8 USB 2.0 ports, integrates 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133 controller, features 4 Serial ATA-150 ports, 6-channel audio-solution, MC97 Modem and other important input/output means.

We do not have precise information about VIA KN400 power consumption.

VIA ProSavage KN400 is shipping in volume quantities now. Pricing information is not available.