VIA Lawsuit Seeks To Block Pentium 4
News VIA and its subsidiary Centaur Technology filed suit against Intel in the Federal District Court for the Western Division of Texas (Austin Division), where Centaur is based, alleging that the Pentium 4 violates a Centaur patent.
[September 20, 2001, 13:00]
Via Takes Wraps Off 'Joshua' Chip
News The Joshua line marks the Taipei-based company's first entry into the processor market since it acquired Cyrix from National Semiconductor and Centaur Technology from Integrated Device Technologies last year.
[February 22, 2000, 16:33]
VIA Announces Pentium 4 'clone'
News Holthaus, an engineer at VIA-owned Centaur Technology, told reporters the chip is a "Pentium 4 clone". Taiwan's VIA Technologies is planning a 2GHz processor that it calls a "clone" of Intel's Pentium 4 processor, the company told journalists at...
[October 17, 2001, 15:57]
Is There Life Left For Low-cost Chips?
News VIA Technologies, which purchased the X86 assets of Cyrix from National Semiconductor and Centaur from IDT, earlier this year, will also be targeting the low end. VIA will maintain two development groups, each a scaled back version of the former...
[October 12, 1999, 8:53]
Intel's Portable Timna To Debut At 700MHz, (Part II)
News Matthew, to be based on VIA's Centaur Winchip, will include a graphics processor and memory controller. Timna is based on a number of different technologies, borrowed from other Intel products. For that reason the trend towards integration in low...
[September 8, 2000, 13:18]
Via Announces Cheap Laptop Chip
News Power goes up as sort of the square root of [frequency]," said Glenn Henry, president of Centaur Technologies, the name of Via's chip-design subsidiary With its C7 processor, Via Technologies hopes to eliminate its performance credibility gap and...
[May 27, 2005, 16:15]
Intel Slaps Via With New Patent Lawsuit
News In the counterclaim, Intel alleges that Taipei, Taiwan-based Via and its US subsidiary Centaur Technology infringed five US patents that Intel holds when Via developed the C3 processor. Intel has escalated its legal war with Via Technologies by...
[October 11, 2001, 9:13]
Intel Vs. Via - Now The Battle's Global
News In its suit, Via, along with its Austin, Texas-based subsidiary Centaur Technology, claims the design of the Pentium 4 violates patents underlying its own microprocessors. Intel expanded its legal fight with Via Technologies on Wednesday by filing...
[September 27, 2001, 9:02]
Via Inches Forward With 64-bit Chips
News The bad news is that you execute things that later get thrown away [and hence consume more power than necessary]", said Glenn Henry, president of Centaur Technology, which is Via's processor design subsidiary.
[January 24, 2008, 6:48]
Via Chips Away At Security Issues
News Via, which entered the PC chip fray in 1999 with the purchase of National Semiconductor's Cyrix division and then IDT's Centaur chip business, has had only a small presence in the United States. Via Technologies is promising to put a padlock on PC...
[January 21, 2003, 16:34]
Court Throws Out Via Charges Against Intel
News In October Intel filed a counterclaim charging that Via and its Centaur subsidiary infringed Intel patents in the C3 chip. The English High Court has ruled against Via Technologies in a lawsuit against chipmaker Intel over the licensing of Pentium...
[June 20, 2002, 15:50]
Chipset From Via Set To Slash PC Prices
News Via's Centaur operation, for example, now manufactures ultra-low-cost x86 processors under the Cyrix brand name, acquired from National Semiconductor. Via Technologies will move to knock up to 10 percent off consumer PCs as early as Christmas, with...
[November 28, 2000, 15:44]
VIA Deal With IDT Keeps Heat On Intel
News "(Our) acquisition of IDT's Centaur design subsidiary further solidifies our design capability in the x86 arena," said Wen-Chi Chen, president of the Taipei, Taiwan-based VIA. There is no question that the Centaur design team is really impressive...
[August 6, 1999, 9:10]
New Guy In X86 Chips Aims Low
News Centaur Technology Inc.which was officially launched at PC Tech Forum here last week, announced that it has working samples of 150MHz, 180MHz and 200MHz processors with MMX Technology. Centaur is targeting its chips at the sub-$1,500 business...
[May 21, 1997, 13:27]
Bluetooth Snags A New Backer
News Via got into the microprocessor market in 1999 when it acquired the microprocessor divisions of National Semiconductor and IDT, named Cyrix and Centaur, respectively. Taiwan chip and device maker Via plans to add Bluetooth networking capabilities...
[October 2, 2002, 7:51]
