EBN Online meldt in dit nieuwsbericht dat VIA Technologies in het tweede kwartaal een apart bedrijf wil oprichten voor haar eigen processor lijn. Het grootste gedeelte van de afzet zal naar de Chinese markt gaan waar VIA op het moment erg actief is. De aangekondigde producten (Cyrix III, Samuel) zullen overigens voor dit jaar gewoon gehandhaafd blijven, voor volgend jaar staan er nieuwe modellen in de planning.
Taiwan chip designer Via Technologies Inc. said Monday that it plans to spin off its CPU business into a separate company in the second quarter of this year.
“We already have CPU products on the market, and business is suitable to create a separate company to deal exclusively with CPUs,” said We-chi Chen, president and chief executive of Via.
Via will own the new company and invest between $100 million and $300 million in the venture. Chen said that he considered acquiring a CPU company, but instead decided to spin off the business.
[...] The CPU spin-off is still without a name. Chen said that Via will choose a Chinese name for the new company.
Via will not change the CPU company's product line this year, but intends to introduce new products next year, Chen said.
[...] The core of its CPU sales will go to mainland China, a market that Via is still breaking into. Chen said that next year he hopes to take 30% of the CPU market in China and 50% of the chipset market.