http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/ Engadget Comments for VIA ditches motherboard business, focuses on processors http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/
This makes no sense. If they manufacture their own x86 chips, wouldn't that make them a first-party chipset manufacturer? If they don't make their chipsets, who's going to make them? Intel?]]>Aug 11th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/
Yeah, like "Hey, Where are we going to put all of this money?"]]>Aug 11th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/
If i remember correctly via's main business is in mini-itx computers not consumer based ones (other than chipsets they make)]]>Aug 11th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/
"it's quitting the motherboard chipset business in order to focus on processors and chipsets for motherboards that use its own Nano CPU"]]>Aug 11th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 11th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/
It's as if everyone read the words VIA, quitting, and motherboard and lost their shit, "Oh no, VIA is gone man! Show's over!"

As Ian so kindly pointed out, they are not quitting the motherboard business, they are simply saying that with the new developments Intel and (eventually) AMD are pushing which will include the video chipset ON the CPU chip, there is really no reason for VIA to sink in the dying chipset market. Now that they have sustainable CPU's pushing hard, they are going to focus on that market and become a player in the monster CPU game. (that might take a while as they have no dualcore's that I'm aware of).

Just to summarize, this will mean that motherboards from here on out will very rarely if ever be impregnated with VIA vga chipsets. VIA will have it's own line of CPU's, vga chipsets, and motherboards to support. No more Intel with VIA chipsets, and no more AMD/asus/foxconn, etc with VIA chipsets. You will be able to buy an entire VIA hardware system.

www.mini-itx.com

]]>Aug 11th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/It doesn't help that the headline is sensationalist bullshit.



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Greetings:

Does this mean that the Pico Motherboards will go on sale.

Via Pico Motherboards are probably the smallest motherboards ever made.

Regards Robert]]>Aug 11th 2008 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/via-ditches-motherboard-business-focuses-on-processors/Aug 12th 2008 4:13AM