ECS sent over an email with some news that they are releasing boards based on both the RS400 and the RS480 chipsets, so they will have boards for both Intel and AMD platform with ATI chipsets.  Is this preliminary for having ATI Multi VPU support?

Fremont, California — April 26, 2005 — Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the Taiwan-based leading producer of motherboards, announced the release of the ATI RS400 chipset-based (also known as the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200) RS400-A motherboard supporting advanced FSB 1066MHz and Intel’s latest LGA 775 Socket and PCI-Express technology. With dual DDR2 and DDR 1 engineered in, ECS RS400-A users can enjoy the stability of Dual DDR1 and also experience the latest DDR2 architecture on one board.

Fremont, California — April 26, 2005 — Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the Taiwan-based leading producer of motherboards, announced the release of the ATI RS480 chipset-based (also known as the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200) RS480-M motherboard supporting the revolutionary AMD Athlon™ 64 CPU to its premium Extreme family.