VIA Launches the VIA Atlantic II VT6526 Ethernet Switch Controller Providing a powerful Ethernet switch solution, the VIA Atlantic II VT6526 brings high performance networking to small and medium sized businesses. Taipei, Taiwan, 14 March 2002 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the introduction of the VIA Atlantic II VT6526 Ethernet switch controller. The versatile VIA Atlantic II VT6526 is the latest addition to VIA's Atlantic Ethernet switch controller product family, and comes equipped with twenty-four 10/100Mbps Ethernet ports to connect network stations, and a further two 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports that support fiber optic and copper Gigabit lines for ultra fast connections to high-speed Internet and other servers. Building on the success of the nine, ten and sixteen port VIA Atlantic switch solutions, the VIA VT6526 supports twenty-six ports, providing considerable flexibility for incorporating into small to medium-sized commercial networking applications. Driving the network data is a high-performance switching engine that performs forwarding and filtering at full wire speed and is supported by 4Mbits of embedded memory. "The VIA Atlantic II VT6526 provides greater flexibility when building networking capabilities with enhanced security and management functionality," commented Jerry Sun, Special Assistant to the President, Networking Division at VIA Technologies, Inc. "The extensive feature set and Gigabit connectivity means the VIA VT6526 perfectly matches the needs of small and medium sized businesses, and represents a significant building block in VIA's Total Connectivity strategy." About the VIA Atlantic II VT6526 Ethernet Switch Controller The VIA Atlantic II VT6526 is a non-blocking store-and-forward shared memory layer-2 switched Ethernet controller fully compliant with the latest networking standards. With SMII and SS-SMII interfaces to connect with three Octal PHY devices, connections can be made to twenty-four 10/100Mbps Base T/TX ports. Additionally, two 802.3z and 802.3ab compliant Gigabit ports with GMII and TBI interfaces can connect Gigabit PHY devices or SERDES transceivers. Extensive features include By-port Egress/Ingress bandwidth control, broadcast storm filtering, and support for a wide range of IEEE 802.1 and 802.3 standards, including VLAN support. Designed for seamless integration by system builders, the VIA VT6526 can be configured as an intelligent, smart, or dumb switch with support for an 8/16bit CPU ARM-7 or 8051 processor interface. The chip is offered in a 208-pin LQFP package that features an exposed PAD to facilitate power spreading. For more information on the VIA Atlantic II VT6526 please go to our website at: http://www.via.com.tw/en/Networking/vt6526.jsp About VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA Technologies, Inc. is a leading innovator and developer of PC core logic chipsets, microprocessors, and multimedia, communication and networking chips. VIA delivers value to the PC industry by designing, marketing, and selling high-performance VIA Apollo core logic chipsets for the full range of PC platforms, and cost-effective VIA C3(tm) processors for Value PCs and Internet Appliances, as well as developing complete solutions for the PC platform through its VPSD Business Unit. Its customers include the world's top OEMs, mainboard manufacturers, and system integrators. VIA is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, at the center of the Greater China >high-tech manufacturing engine, and has branch offices in the US, China and Europe. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE2388), and >achieved annual revenues of nearly US$1 billion in 2001. Additional information can be found at www.via.com.tw