VIA's Mobos Scare off Chipset Customers

08:30 - Monday 29 October 2001 by THG Reporting Team
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: vias, mobos, scare, off, chipset, customers Category : Miscellaneous

If you remember, earlier this month we mentioned that VIA was going whole hog into the motherboard market with no less than nine new boards . However, that may not sit so well with mobo makers who were expected to offer boards using VIA's chipset. While VIA's primary goal in releasing the motherboards was more than likely a means of giving its P4X266 DDR SDRAM chipset more penetration, the company may have irked motherboard manufacturers who may now see VIA as competition rather than a component supplier. According to a story in Taiwan's

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