Hello All.
I know most of you "enthusiasts" will consider good news. VIA chipsets in the past years haven't been top notch. But they were cheap and reliable. One of my best chipsets was VIA in the form a MSI k7t Turbo Limited Edition. I'm using a Asus M2V atm, still working and going strong. I read it on The Inquirer so, it might not be true, although they post a lot of FUD, they usually got some truth on it.
In my POV It is horrible news, and everybody is heading the proprietary way. Intel with Intel Chipsets, AMD with AMD chipsets and now Nvidia only doing GPUs also. I can feel the price of mobos going up and the features being regulated by pricing. Intel vs AMD war will still wage but anyway, VIA wont be here to keep them in-line with decent pricing. Might be only my imagination or fear but i don't see too much good coming from it. History is too much a teacher when it comes to "closed" tecnologies.
RAMBUS RIMMS pricing. Via saved the day after the contract expired with Intel. It joined the old Willamette with SDRAM.
OLD 386/486 Clones. Via Provided the chipsets.
K6,K6-II and K7 socket 7. Via Provided the chipsets.
During transition fases like mobos with DDR and DDR2 slots. Via Provided the Chipsets.
During transition fases like mobos with AGP and PCIE Slots. Via Provided the Chipsets.
This i recall from the top of my head.
Via is long time chipset maker for the x86 platform. It provided "value" chipsets, and some pretty good, giving more diversity to the market. If they leave well.....in my POV it is very sad news.
I know most of you "enthusiasts" will consider good news. VIA chipsets in the past years haven't been top notch. But they were cheap and reliable. One of my best chipsets was VIA in the form a MSI k7t Turbo Limited Edition. I'm using a Asus M2V atm, still working and going strong. I read it on The Inquirer so, it might not be true, although they post a lot of FUD, they usually got some truth on it.
In my POV It is horrible news, and everybody is heading the proprietary way. Intel with Intel Chipsets, AMD with AMD chipsets and now Nvidia only doing GPUs also. I can feel the price of mobos going up and the features being regulated by pricing. Intel vs AMD war will still wage but anyway, VIA wont be here to keep them in-line with decent pricing. Might be only my imagination or fear but i don't see too much good coming from it. History is too much a teacher when it comes to "closed" tecnologies.
RAMBUS RIMMS pricing. Via saved the day after the contract expired with Intel. It joined the old Willamette with SDRAM.
OLD 386/486 Clones. Via Provided the chipsets.
K6,K6-II and K7 socket 7. Via Provided the chipsets.
During transition fases like mobos with DDR and DDR2 slots. Via Provided the Chipsets.
During transition fases like mobos with AGP and PCIE Slots. Via Provided the Chipsets.
This i recall from the top of my head.
Via is long time chipset maker for the x86 platform. It provided "value" chipsets, and some pretty good, giving more diversity to the market. If they leave well.....in my POV it is very sad news.