Originally Posted by Bindibadgi No, there's no way they'll get a licence for any multi GPU technology, they can't offer anything that NV or AMD wants.
Thats what Im saying, without thatthey wont be able to get back into the hardcore level unless theydo something revolutionary. Everything I have seen from them has worked and done its job but offers nothing amazing, my chip can go higher, my ram can go higher. But its my chipset/motherboard thats limiting my overclock. Looking at their website shows me that they dont have interest in anything like that. For a budget build I would have no problems with Via but thats about it.
I'm no professional strategist or analytic, but I would suggest VIA to go the SFF way and drop it's offerings in the mainstream/budget market. They have nothing to offer there.
I actually was asked on school to set up a budget system and I choose a P5V-VM DH board from ASUS with a VIA chipset. Albeit VIA provided x64 drivers they couldn't offer easy sound-driver installation on a Windows x64. I had to download a patch from MS and do some tweaking to get it working. That was of course partly Microsoft's fault and is in no way a argument here. I just had to mention it. The board also had integrated Wi-Fi on a daughterboard.
If VIA can produce a single-chip solutions and make PCBs ready for sale like they did with EPIA series, then they can compete with AMD and Intels offerings in the same sector. That being Geode and Xscale respectively.
With companies like Asus putting out things like their R2H (link) even Via's ultra compact systems are threatened. I had a look at one of these the other day and it's a nice little system. It's a tiny bit smaller than a standard hardcover novel. I think it could be a great car-puter
Originally Posted by Saivert I'm no professional strategist or analytic, but I would suggest VIA to go the SFF way and drop it's offerings in the mainstream/budget market. They have nothing to offer there.
I actually was asked on school to set up a budget system and I choose a P5V-VM DH board from ASUS with a VIA chipset. Albeit VIA provided x64 drivers they couldn't offer easy sound-driver installation on a Windows x64. I had to download a patch from MS and do some tweaking to get it working. That was of course partly Microsoft's fault and is in no way a argument here. I just had to mention it. The board also had integrated Wi-Fi on a daughterboard.
If VIA can produce a single-chip solutions and make PCBs ready for sale like they did with EPIA series, then they can compete with AMD and Intels offerings in the same sector. That being Geode and Xscale respectively.
So the point is:
VIA is embedded!
They have a lot to offer the budget market and do so. It's also a massive chunk of their revenue. If you're speccing for an x64 system it goes along the theory you'll need it for some sort of workstation and not include a budget board. You can't hold it against VIA for that. Many companies didn't support WinXP x64.
Also, the audio is provided by ADI SoundMAX that has nothing to do with VIA.
VIA is not embedded, they are a massively diverse company manking IC's for networking, sound, optical, CPUs, chipsets. To just become an embedded company would mean investing in another market more deeply to regain the significant lost revenue from leaving the others.]
The thing that VIA needs to do is become a platform company: like Intel Centrino and VIIV or AMD Live.
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ReplyI actually was asked on school to set up a budget system and I choose a P5V-VM DH board from ASUS with a VIA chipset. Albeit VIA provided x64 drivers they couldn't offer easy sound-driver installation on a Windows x64. I had to download a patch from MS and do some tweaking to get it working. That was of course partly Microsoft's fault and is in no way a argument here. I just had to mention it. The board also had integrated Wi-Fi on a daughterboard.
If VIA can produce a single-chip solutions and make PCBs ready for sale like they did with EPIA series, then they can compete with AMD and Intels offerings in the same sector. That being Geode and Xscale respectively.
So the point is:
VIA is embedded!
They have a lot to offer the budget market and do so. It's also a massive chunk of their revenue. If you're speccing for an x64 system it goes along the theory you'll need it for some sort of workstation and not include a budget board. You can't hold it against VIA for that. Many companies didn't support WinXP x64.
Also, the audio is provided by ADI SoundMAX that has nothing to do with VIA.
VIA is not embedded, they are a massively diverse company manking IC's for networking, sound, optical, CPUs, chipsets. To just become an embedded company would mean investing in another market more deeply to regain the significant lost revenue from leaving the others.]
The thing that VIA needs to do is become a platform company: like Intel Centrino and VIIV or AMD Live.
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