VIA has announced plans to release a Android-powered PC, called APC, which it will sell for just $49. VIA will start accepting pre-orders soon and will begin shipment of the APC in early July. More...
VIA has tacitly confirmed that it's quitting the PC chipset business, claiming that there's no longer a third-party chipset market worth the name. Richard Brown, VIA's marketing chief, told Custom PC: "We believed that ultimately... More...
Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, a move intended to make customization easier and shorten design cycles for system makers. The CAD... More...
With Hewlett-Packard (HP) said to have ordered 100,000 C7-M ULV processors for its initial mini-note low-cost PC launch, (which is expected to reach 500,000 units in total in 2008) while Gigabyte Technology's new M700 series... More...
The high-profile corporate espionage case between VIA Technologies and D-Link will go to trial on Monday in Taipei, Taiwan. According to a VIA filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) today, company chairwoman Cher Wang... More...
Taiwanese chipset designers VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) expressed little disappointment regarding yet another delay by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in launching its K8-core Athlon 64 processors, stating that the postponement may in... More...
WHILE BOTH SIS and Via are moving fast to try and catch up with the 800MHz hyperthreading surprise Intel will pull next year, one major result of the moves has been to throw both those... More...
Two more companies today signed up to the AMD standards camp, with Zeus, the Internet server OS, tipping up to write 64-bit extensions for Opteron, and VIA enlisting for the HyperTransport protocol brigade. ... More...