About VIA Technologies
Taiwanese chip designer that holds an x86 licence. It acquired Centaur Technology in 1999 and co-founded the Chinese x86 maker Zhaoxin in 2013 with the Shanghai municipal government (reported 14.75% stake in 2021). Its own processor activity today is limited, and the entry is mainly relevant as the source of the Centaur x86 design lineage.
VIA Technologies was founded in 1987 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. It is listed under CPUs & RISC-V. Its shares trade as 2388.TW on TWSE.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
What VIA Technologies works on
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
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