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• Business 18 May 11:26

  Nokia heaping piles of cash onto Espoo's biggest bonfire

  The cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street are worried that Nokia is burning through its cash faster than an under-the-weather Italian in a shoe shop in the Via Corsa.
• Chips 16 Mar 11:35

  Via loses ground

  Chipmaker Via is losing more ground to AMD and Intel, according to bean counters at IDC.
• Chips 16 Dec 12:20

  Via sticks Android 2.2 on x86

  Via has worked out how to stick Android 2.2 on an Em-ITX single board x86 PC.
• Hardware 22 Nov 11:29

  Via lets loose tiny Artigo PC kit

  Taiwanese chip company Via has announced something it calls the Artigo A1150, which is a dual core DIY PC kit aimed at the enthusiast market, for desktops.
• Chips 02 Nov 08:43

  AMD fails in Apple rescue attempt

  AMD stormed into the fray and sued S3 claiming it owned the patents that S3 has asserted against Apple. That case has yet to be heard by anyone, but AMD thought that the ITC should stop its actions against Apple while its claim was sorted out.
• Chips 23 Sep 09:52

  Via takes Apple to court over three patents

  Taiwanese chip firm Via thinks Apple is violating its microprocessor intellectual property on the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and all of the software.
• Chips 19 Aug 10:59

  Speculation mounts that Formosa might dump Nanya, Inotera

  Nanya and Inotera are owned by massive conglomerate Formosa Plastics. So, by the way are Via and HTC.
• Chips 02 Aug 08:09

  PC chip sales faltered in second quarter

  AMD appears to have taken some market share from Intel. Market share for Intel was 79.3 percent, for AMD 20.4 percent. Intel was down 1.5 percent sequentially, AMD up 1.5 percent. The only other X86 CPU vendor, Via, had a market share of 0.3 percent.
• Business 06 Jul 13:42

  HTC buys S3 from Via

  Fabless semiconductor company Via has announced it will sell off its entire share of S3 Graphics to Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC.
• Hardware 22 Jun 09:34

  AMD, Nvidia, Via give up on SYSmark 2012 Benchmark

  Designer of chips AMD, Nvidia and Via have decided it will not use the SYSmark benchmark which is blessed by BAPCo because it favours rivals.
• Chips 12 May 15:58

  Via to release a quad core chip

  Via is about to release a quad-core range of chips soon, according to the hacks at Tech Report who found the chip during a visit to the outfit's offices.
• Chips 03 May 10:00

  Razor blades remind me of Intel and AMD

  CommentJust like razors, the chip wars are more or less over. AMD remains a minority player in the X86 market while plucky little Taiwanese company Via holds the tiniest market share even compared to Sunnyvale. I daresay there are places where AMD is the Mostochlegmash of microprocessors.
• Chips 27 Apr 12:40

  Intel still rules the chip industry, analyst realises

  Via had .9 percent, which was .2 percent during the same period last year.
• Chips 24 Feb 09:53

  Intel to talk up Light Peak and Apple later today

  UpdatedUSB 3.0 has generally had a positive reception but only if you can get your hands on it. Intel has been accused of slowing innovation and dragging its heels on chipset releases, while NEC sat proud at the top of the market for some time. Via and others were also slow to capitalise.
• Chips 14 Feb 08:45

  AMD: Ripe for a takeover, perhaps

  CommentThere could also be mileage in an Asian company taking over AMD. Perhaps a Chinese firm could be interested in being an X86 player and joining Via and Intel as the Holy X86 trinity.
• Hardware 07 Jan 07:59

  One laptop per child costs $165 now

  CES 2011The previous XO used an x86-based microprocessor, the kind made by Intel, AMD and Via Technologies. But the ARM-based chips halved power consumption to just 2-watts.
• Business 22 Dec 11:12

  Formosa Petrochemical loans Nanya and Inotera cash

  Formosa Plastic Group is the parent company of Nanya. The Forbes-listed Cher Wang is the heiress to the company and the ties run deeper. She's married to Via's CEO, owns Inotera and FIC and is the chair and co-founder of smartphone giant HTC.
• Chips 22 Nov 12:08

  Via ready to ship integrated USB 3.0 controller ICs

  Via Labs has at last obtained a USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) certification for its USB 3.0 controller ICs specifically for flash drives and is ready to start shipping.

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