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VIA quits motherboard chipset business |
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Written by Danrok
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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From the Inquirer: AFTER WIDESPREAD rumours of Nvidia quitting the chipset business imminently, Via has announced it will also exit the once competitive motherboard chipset market. Speaking to Custom PC, VIA vice president of corporate marketing in Taiwan, Richard Brown, outlined the reasoning behind the company's exit.
"One of the main reasons we originally moved into the x86 processor business was because we believed that ultimately the third party chipset market would disappear, and we would need to have the capability to provide a complete platform." [More...] [Comments...] |