VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies, briefly VIA (Very Innovative Architecture) (Chinese威盛 电子 股份有限公司, short chinese威盛 电子, Pinyin Weisheng Dianzi ), is a Taiwanese manufacturer that was known primarily chipsets. VIA's product portfolio even includes but other products:

  • PC processors
  • Graphics chips
  • Sound chips
  • Network chips
  • Controller chips
  • Motherboard

History

VIA Technologies was from Symphony Company in Silicon Valley in Fremont, CA (USA), Wen Chi Chen (陈文琦) founded in 1987 as part of the Formosa Plastics Group. Chen was before he joined Symphony, at Intel. In 1992, the company headquarters to start the chip production to Taipei ( Taiwan) was laid. 1999 bought the VIA CPU Cyrix and Centaur Technology Companies. Along with Sonic Blue 2001 formed a joint venture S3 Graphics.

The technology of these firms enabled VIA the development of energy-efficient EPIA motherboards in the mini -ITX format, which ran with its own processor in the range of 1-1.5 GHz and can be passively cooled as they have a power dissipation of less than 7 watts. These components VIA made ​​a name in the years 2003 /2004. Due to the small size and low power consumption, these motherboards are ideal for use as a multimedia PC in a barebones or Shuttle housing.

VIA was dismantled in the wake of Canaan project into a number of companies. The following companies are subsidiaries of VIA Technologies:

  • Centaur Technology ( CPUs)
  • IC Ensemble ( sound chip )
  • VIA Embedded Solutions Division (EPIA platform etc. )
  • VIA Networking Technologies (LAN & WLAN chips)
  • VIA Optical Solution ( controller for optical drives)
  • VIA Telecom (chipsets for mobile phones)

In August 2008, VIA announced that it would withdraw from the area of ​​chipsets for AMD and Intel processors. In this area you will now concentrate on its own processors C3 and C7.

On July 6, 2011 VIA finally announced all of its shares in the GPU manufacturers S3 for sale.

Products

Chipsets

South Bridges

  • VIA VT82Cxxx series
  • VIA VT82xx series

For Socket 5/7 CPUs

  • VIA Apollo series without integrated graphics core
  • VIA Apollo MVP4 with integrated graphics core

For AMD K7 CPUs ( EV6 protocol)

  • VIA KT- series without integrated graphics core
  • VIA KM - series integrated graphics core
  • VIA KLE133 with integrated graphics core
  • VIA CN series with integrated graphics core for notebooks

For AMD K8 CPUs ( HyperTransport )

  • VIA K8T series without integrated graphics core
  • VIA K8M series with integrated graphics core
  • VIA K8N series with integrated graphics core for notebooks

For Intel P6 CPUs (GTL )

  • VIA Apollo P6 without integrated graphics core
  • VIA Apollo Pro series without integrated graphics core
  • VIA Apollo ProMedia series with integrated graphics core

For Intel CPUs P7 ( AGTL ) Without integrated graphics (VIA PT Series):

  • VIA P4X266
  • VIA P4X266A
  • VIA P4X400
  • VIA PT800
  • VIA PT880
  • VIA PT880 Ultra
  • VIA PT894
  • VIA PT894 Pro
  • VIA PT890

With integrated graphics unit (VIA PM series ):

  • VIA P4M266
  • VIA PM800
  • VIA PM880
  • VIA PN800
  • VIA P4M800
  • VIA P4M800 Pro
  • VIA P4M890
  • VIA P4M900

For VIA C3 CPU's ( GTL ) With integrated graphics unit (VIA C- series):

  • VIA CLE266
  • VIA CN400

For VIA C7 and VIA Nano CPUs ( V4 Bus) with integrated graphics unit (VIA C- series):

  • VIA CN700
  • VIA CX700
  • VIA CN800
  • VIA CN896

With integrated graphics unit (VIA V- series):

  • VIA VN800
  • VIA VX800
  • VIA VX855
  • VIA VN896

Chipsets with an X in second place integrate North and South Bridge in a chip.

Graphics chips

Standalone

  • Savage XP
  • DeltaChrome
  • GammaChrome
  • Chrome S20

Integrated ( IGPs )

  • Twister
  • ProSavage
  • ProSavageDDR
  • UniChrome
  • UniChrome Pro
  • Chrome9 HC

Mobile

  • Alpha Chrome
  • DeltaChrome
  • GammaChrome

Network chips

  • VIA Rhine VT6105M
  • VIA VT6106S Rhine
  • VIA Rhine VT6106H
  • VIA Rhine VT6107
  • VIA Velocity VT6120
  • VIA Velocity VT6122

Wi-Fi

  • VIA VT6651 Solomon
  • VIA VT6655 Solomon

Audio solutions

Sound chips

  • Envy24 series
  • Tremor

Audio codecs

  • AC97 codecs
  • HDA codecs

Processors

  • VIA Cyrix III
  • VIA C3
  • VIA C7
  • VIA Nano
  • VIA Eden
  • VIA core fusion

Others

  • VIA EPIA mainboards
  • Communication chips for mobile phones, see VIA Telecom
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