Although VIA lacks the name recognition of other chip suppliers (such as ATI, Intel and nVidia), many VIA chipsets have outstanding functions in a wide variety of PC products. VIA's career in the PC market focuses on integrated chipsets. Among PC users, VIA is most famous for its mainframe chipset. However, VIA's products include sound controller, network/connection controller, low-power CPU and even CD/DVD burning chipset. PC and peripheral manufacturers like ASUS buy these chipsets and put them into their own product brands. 1990, VIA began to diversify its core logic business, and the company began to acquire and set up CPU department, drawing department and audio department there. Due to the progress of silicon chip manufacturing and the continuous improvement of integration and functionality in chipset, VIA also needs these separate departments to maintain the competitiveness of the core logic market. The chipset produced by VIA can support mainstream Intel and AMDCPU, and of course it can also support its own CPU. Even the Loongson series processors developed by Chinese mainland provide input and output functions through the south bridge chip of VIA chipset.
1, via mvp3-the most popular super Socket7 chipset, with AGP interface 1.0, up to 5 12MBPC- 100SDRAM support, up to 2MBL2 cache. After the update, we will integrate Trident drawing with MVP4 and improve ATA-66 disk interface.
2.ApolloPro 133— The first via supports 133MHz front-end bus (Slot 1/Socket370), and perhaps the most important thing is to support 133MHzSDRAM memory. ApolloPro 133A is the support of AGP4X.
3. Apollo 133a and Apollo KX 133/kt133/kt133a-Apollo kx133 are typical examples of amd Athlon processor SlotA. Followed by SocketA's Apollo KT133 AMD Athlon/Duron processor. The chipset was later adjusted to KT 133A, mainly for the adjustment of the memory controller and some improved features. KT 133A provides a stable and efficient chipset.
4. Prosavage PM133/KM133—Based on the drawing core from S3, it provides a combination of 2D and 3D components of Nature 4 and Nature 2000. This is also VIA's first integrated chip.
5. Updating DDR memory through KT266, KT266a, KT333, KT400, KT400a, KT600-Athlon processors. This part of the specification is noteworthy because it provides an unexpected speed increase. A series of versions are updated to the latest memory speed level, which can be seen from the title of the chipset. Finally, KT880 can compete with dual-channel memory nForce2 chipset, but the market sales volume is not high, because it was launched many days later than competitor nForce2, and the supported K7 platform gradually faded out of the market.
6.VIAPT800 is a Pentium 4 single channel chipset launched by VIA.
7.VIAPT880 is the first Pentium 4 dual-channel chipset launched by VIA.
8, VIA K8T800, VIA K8T800 Pro-Athlon 64 chipset. Established a leading position in the early market, with rich functions and full-speed HyperTransport implementation.
9. Via K8T890-VIA's first Athlon64PCIe chipset.
10 and VIAK8T900 are similar to VIA K890, but support one PCI-E 16X or split into two PCI-E8X. Since the acquisition of Cyrix, VIA began to set foot in the field of x86CPU design, and successively launched a variety of processors. Although it can't compete with Intel and AMD in performance, its specialty is low power consumption, so it can gain a foothold in some special fields. In addition, the CPU produced by VIA Electronics has a remarkable feature, that is, the hardware integrates the function of data encryption/decryption.
1, Cyrix series
2.VIAC3 series
3. Adopt C7 series
4. VIA Nano (Linglong)
5. via quad-core is similar to CPU department. VIA entered the field of graphics processing core (GPU) after acquiring S3Graphic. Its products can't compete with NVIDIA and ATI in the graphics field, but they are also characterized by low power consumption and are usually used for integrated chipsets. Monochrome series
DeltaChromeS8 series
Gamma series 18
ChromeS2x series
Chrome400 series is an established supplier of PC components, paying special attention to the SuperSocket7 platform. VIA's current market positioning comes from the success of its PentiumIII chipset. Intel made the wrong decision not to continue to develop its SDRAM chipset, and said that it would only support RAMBUS memory in the future. Because RAMBUS was very expensive at that time and provided several obvious performance advantages, manufacturers found that they could sell cheap PCs with comparable performance by using VIA chipset. Although VIA chipset, especially for AGP implementation, has had compatibility and performance problems. VIA's high-performance, stable and mature chipset suddenly found a great market demand, and the profit was getting higher and higher. Many companies have maintained the strategy of only buying Intel before, and the result of their first big order with VIA also satisfied them. VIA also benefits from AMD's popular Athlon processor. After becoming a high-performance chipset provider, VIA also sold millions of Athlon chipsets.