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VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the
Formosa Plastics group. It is the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets.
The company was founded in 1987 from the Symphony Company in Silicon Valley by, among others, Wen Chi Chen (who was employed at
Intel before joining Symphony), who is still CEO of the company. Chen transferred the employees of
Symphony to Taiwan to start chip production.
In 1996 VIA played a major part in the PC Common Architecture standard group, pushing the switch from the ISA bus to the PCI bus.
In 1999 it acquired most of Cyrix (then a division of
National Semiconductor) and also Centaur, marking its entry into the microprocessor market.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/index.jsp
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