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Via project to boost Linux support
News Via Technologies, a supplier of chipsets and x86 processors, has launched a project to improve support for its products with Linux and other open-source platforms. Announced at the not-for-profit Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit in...
[April 9, 2008, 14:23]
Chip makers release driver source code
News Taiwanese chip makers VIA Technologies and XGI Technology released the source code of various drivers this week in an attempt to improve Linux support for their products. VIA Technologies released the source code of various drivers, including its...
[April 14, 2005, 15:00]
Lotus, VIA cancel conferences
News VIA Technologies and Lotus Development have both cancelled conferences that were due to start within days, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and other targets in the US on Tuesday. The VIA Technology Forum was due to start in Munich...
[September 12, 2001, 12:03]
Via moves away from the 'monolithic PC'
News Via Technologies is building on its success with small form-factor PC platforms to gain a foothold in consumer electronics with reference designs and processor platforms appearing later this year. Via sees a big future for PCs that are tailored for...
[March 31, 2003, 16:12]
Via diverts down 64-bit track
News Via Technologies announced a chipset on Tuesday to allow computer makers to use Advanced Micro Devices' controversial new Athlon 64 processor. Major motherboard makers are using Via's K8T800 chipset, including ABIT, Albatron, ASUS, Chaintech, FIC...
[September 24, 2003, 10:40]
VIA launches 'carbon free' computing
News VIA Technologies, the Taiwanese manufacturer of microprocessors and chipsets, announced on Wednesday that it is billing its C7-D chip as the world's first 'carbon-free' processor. Launched in September as a 'carbon-neutral' chip, the step up in...
[October 12, 2006, 9:15]
VIA announces Pentium 4 'clone'
News 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 the Microprocessor Forum on Monday. Like Pentium 4 it will use a deep 18-stage pipeline architecture...
[October 17, 2001, 15:57]
Intel sues Via as chipset wars begin anew
News Chipmaker Intel has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies and will seek to have Via's new Pentium 4 chipsets pulled off the market. Acer Labs, SiS and ATI Technologies all have Pentium 4 chipset licences and are expected to...
[September 10, 2001, 9:24]
Linux box can be embedded inside a PC
News Taiwanese hardware maker Via Technologies and US-based PC maker Mini-Box have unveiled a tiny desktop computer featuring an embedded Linux operating system. You can stack almost 10 Mini-Box M-100s in the space of a single PC tower, each with more...
[April 25, 2003, 12:27]
Via demonstrates Tablet PC
News Semiconductor maker Via Technologies is demonstrating a working prototype of its Tablet PC reference design this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Taipei, Taiwan, as it continues to push into the growing market for...
[May 8, 2002, 17:31]
Via takes wraps off 'Joshua' chip
News Via Technologies Tuesday is to unveil a new processor, code-named Joshua, that will be targeted at the "value-segment", or low-cost, end of the market. The Joshua line marks the Taipei-based company's first entry into the processor market since it...
[February 22, 2000, 16:33]
Smartphone laptop release announced
News The computer part of the equation consists of Windows XP Tablet operating system, a 1.5GHz C7-M processor from Via Technologies and 1GB of DDR 2 memory. DualCor Technologies next month will unveil the cPC, a full-fledged handheld Windows XP...
[December 16, 2005, 12:50]
Intel's portable Timna to debut at 700MHz, (Part II)
News For that reason the trend towards integration in low-end computing will accelerate as Intel and other chip makers including VIA Technologies continue to add features to their processors that would normally be handled by a separate chip or chip set.
[September 8, 2000, 13:18]
AMD crashes Intel's desert chipfest
News AMD is also making investments in developing new chipset technologies for the Athlon, which will increase performance via faster bus speeds. VIA Technologies will also release a new chipset for Athlon on Socket A.
[February 17, 2000, 10:06]
Tablet PC gets a boost from Dell veterans
News Computer makers including Compaq, Sony and Toshiba are planning to market such devices, and chipmakers Intel, Transmeta and Via Technologies are also working in this area. We also have strong alliances, including a codevelopment agreement with...
[May 21, 2002, 7:32]
CeBIT: Breezecom aims for IP services
News The company intends to provide a full range of wireless IP based services which can replace standard consumer technologies such as ISDN, ADSL and standard analogue modem connections and then provide traditional voice telephony too.
[March 22, 1999, 6:16]
A Year Ago: BT could keep bandwidth costs artificially high
News The technologies to bring broadband services to consumers can be delivered via telephone lines, cable, optical fibre, digital TV and mobile/fixed radio. The emergence of DSL technologies, which will provide high-speed Internet access, video-on...
[February 25, 2000, 5:41]
Intel's brave new home Pt II
News Content-management technologies are under construction for adding background information and links to broadcasts. IAL is also tackling enhanced video broadcast technologies, which combine video and data to create interactive television.
[July 26, 2000, 11:55]
Companies fear costly MPEG-4 licences
News Like its predecessors, MPEG-4 comprises audio and video technologies that condense large digital files into smaller ones that can be easily transferred via the Web. I don't think (the fees) are commercially viable," said Douglas McIntyre, chief...
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Nokia launches low-tech wireless email
News Instead, the selling point of Nokia One, which was more than four years in the making, is that it is based on tried-and-true technologies such as text messaging and GSM, the basic standard for most of the world's mobile phones.
[June 14, 2002, 17:07]
