Introduction: VIA Technologies, Inc. (VIA for short) was founded in September 1992. The company is located in Xindian City, Taipei County, Taiwan, and has branches in the United States, Europe, Chinese Mainland and other places to strengthen business development, talent recruitment, regional software and hardware integration product development and other work. Weisheng is a global leader in IC design and personal computer platform solutions, entering the international market with its own brand. In the entire semiconductor industry chain, VIA has also become a model enterprise in the knowledge economy era due to its fabless business model and emphasis on talent recruitment and technology development. Currently, the global workforce exceeds 2000 people. The system chipset used in personal computers is the main product line of VIA Technologies. Due to the strong promotion of PC-133 system specifications in 1999 and the leading introduction of DDR memory technology in the industry, the company has received numerous customer and consumer support in recent years, and its market share has continued to increase. In 2001, it reached a level of about 40%. At the same time, it also provides complete corresponding solutions for special designs of various mainstream platforms, including Apollo PT and PM series chipsets supporting Pentium 4 platform, as well as Apollo KT/K8T series supporting AMD Athlon and K8 processors, and so on. Among them, VIA Technologies holds a dominant position in the shipment volume of AMD processor platforms, with a market share of over 80% for a single platform. In addition, after several major acquisitions and joint ventures since 1998, including Cyrix, IDT Centaur, S3, IC Ensemble, etc., VIA Technologies has also upgraded from a simple system chipset manufacturer to a comprehensive internet system integration component supplier. In addition to cross platform system chipsets, the product line also includes the VIA-C3 series processors, IEEE1394、USB2.0、 Ethernet communication chips, optical storage
