The system chipset used in personal computers is the main product line of VIA Electronics. Because 1999 vigorously promoted the system specification of PC- 133 and led the industry to introduce DDR memory technology, the company has received many support from customers and consumers in recent years, and its market share has been continuously improved, reaching about 40% in 200 1 year. At the same time, it also provides a complete corresponding solution for the special design of mainstream platforms, including Apollo PT and PM series crystals supporting Pentium 4 platform. Among them, VIA Electronics is in a dominant position in AMD processor platform, with a single platform share of over 80%.
In addition, via electronics in the past 1998, through several major acquisitions and joint ventures, including Cyrix, IDT Centaur, S3, IC Ensemble, etc., via electronics has also been upgraded from a simple system chipset manufacturer to an all-round Internet system integration component supplier. In addition to the cross-platform system chipset, the product line also includes VIA -C3 series processors, IEEE 1394, USB2.0, Ethernet communication chips, optical storage, audio and video multimedia control chips and embedded system products related to Windows CE. At the same time, through the strategic cooperation with S3, VIA has mastered the advanced drawing chip technology. After obtaining the wireless communication design team of LSI logic, it will stride into the new generation of wireless communication field, and it is expected to have the complete strength needed to build personal computers, Internet devices and information appliances in the future.
At the end of 200 1, the platform solution products division was formally established, which is an important milestone for VIA to actively develop its system-level development capability. At present, the Canaan Plan launched in 2002 has also borne fruit, and many product subsidiaries such as VITEN and VIHAN have been established. From June to 10, 2003, VIA Electronics further integrated the platform division, CPU and embedded R&D department, and established the embedded platform division (VEPD). Under the concept of "all-round connection", VIA Electronics has shown excellent operating performance and is making every effort to enter the IA and embedded application markets.
VIA Electronics' customer base covers all major original equipment manufacturers, motherboard manufacturers and system integrators in the world. Headquartered in Xindian City, Taibei County, Taiwan Province Province, it has branches in the United States, Europe and Chinese mainland to strengthen business development, talent recruitment and regional software and hardware integration product development. VIA is an integrated circuit design manufacturer with highly concentrated knowledge, and R&D is the core competitiveness of integrated circuit design companies. The purpose of building a transnational and trans-regional product development base is to expand the breadth of technical capabilities and deepen the understanding of different markets, which is also the strategic layout that VIA must make in the next stage of rapid growth. In the future, the company will still take Greater China as its operation center, but it is bound to gradually present a global R&D and operation pattern. In the long run, Europe, America, Japan and other places will be important links in VIA's transnational business structure.
VIA's Next Generation Isaiah Processor Platform
VIA Isaiah architecture is a new x86 processor architecture. For desktops, mobile devices and UMPC, it can not only improve product performance, but also expand product functions, and meet the low power consumption requirements of target products, thus prolonging battery life and realizing ultra-small system design.
VIA Isaiah architecture is designed and developed by Centaur Technology Inc, an American processor design subsidiary. It integrates all the latest x86 processor technologies, including 64-bit superscalar speculative disordered microarchitecture, and realizes high-performance multimedia computing and a brand-new virtual machine architecture.
The first generation of VIA Isaiah series products are compatible with VIA C7 series pins, and adopt 65nm process, with lower power consumption and the best performance per watt on the market.
VIA Nano, the first processor under VIA Isaiah architecture.
VIA provides a series of low-power processors for personal computers, thin clients, ultra-portable and embedded devices. VIA processor is famous for its leading performance, exquisite design, low energy consumption and compatibility with a full range of multifunctional VIA digital multimedia chipsets, which has injected brand-new innovation vitality into the embedded products, mobile products and electronic consumer products markets.
VIA Nano？ ) processor family and through C7 &；; reg； This processor family is aimed at specific devices based on low power consumption and performance standards. Meet the higher performance requirements of mainstream desktops and laptops, fanless operation and battery energy saving level of mobile devices.
Through a quad-core processor
VIA quad-core processor integrates four 64-bit "Isaiah" cores on two bare chips, providing low power consumption, high performance multitasking and excellent multimedia performance. VIA quad-core processor adopts multi-core architecture with high performance and low power consumption, which can provide excellent multithreading performance, support low-power multitasking, multimedia playback, high computing power and Internet browsing. The distributed performance of VIA quad-core processor facilitates its application in various multi-screen display environments.
Via quad-core processor natively supports 64-bit operating system, and also has a series of performances such as adaptive overclocking, 4MB L2 cache, 1333MHz V4 bus, etc. Its low-power design is in the leading position in the industry, and the thermal design power consumption (TDP) of the VIA quad-core processor clocked at 1.2+ GHz is only 27.5w W..
In addition, VIA Quad-core processors also adopt VIA virtualization technology, which can run old software and applications in a virtual environment without any impact on performance. The processor adopts advanced decoding engine VIA padlock, which provides the fastest AES encryption in the world. Providing hardware-based operation data encryption is an important tool for content protection and system security.
The VIA quad-core processor adopts the latest 40nm technology and is packaged in 21mm x 21mm via nanobga2. The core size is only 1 1mm x 6mm. It is fully pin-compatible with VIA Eden, VIA C7, VIA Nano E processor family and VIA Eden X2 processor. Products with the main frequency of 1.2+ GHz will be supplied first.
1987, founded by Chen of Symphony Company in Silicon Valley, California, USA. He was an employee of Intel before joining Symphony and is currently the general manager of the company. Chen started making chips by sending employees back from Symphony to Taiwan Province province. Chen's wife is the chairman of the company. She is the daughter of Wang Yongqing, chairman of Formosa Plastics Company. 1992, the headquarters moved to Xindian City, Taibei County, Taiwan Province Province.
From 65438 to 0996, VIA played a major role in the en:PCCommonArchitecture standard group, which promoted the conversion from ISA bus to PCI bus.
From 65438 to 0999, VIA acquired Cyrix (a division of National Semiconductor Corporation) and Centaur, and began to enter the microprocessor market. VIA is also a manufacturer of VIAC3 and VIAC7 processors and EPIA platforms.
In 2000, it successfully captured half of the chipset and won the share king at a sky-high price of 629 yuan, creating a market value of 65.438+0258 billion Taiwan dollars.
200 1, VIA made ProjectCanaan, which entered the optical storage chip, drawing chip, CPU and network chip in four ways, and acquired the graphics department of S3Graphics.
In February 2005, VIA celebrated the production of the 1 100 millionth AMD chipset.
In June 5438+February 65438+May 2006, VIA reorganized its organization into three business divisions to improve its operational efficiency.
In July, 2007, VIA decided to give up the chipset business with low gross profit and mature market, and focus on its own CPUPlatform to produce chipset supporting C7. The original three business divisions were reduced to two again.