VIA quits chipset business

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

VIA is exiting the chipset market:

Speaking to Custom PC, VIA’s vice president of corporate marketing in Taiwan, Richard Brown, explained that: ‘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.’

‘That has indeed come to pass,’ said Brown. He also added that ‘Intel provides the vast majority of chipsets for its processors and, following its purchase of ATI, AMD is also moving very quickly in the same direction.’

I think Nvidia's going to drop out too (despite their protestations). Both AMD and Intel are now producing premium chipsets for their own motherboard platforms, and want to gobble that market for themselves rather than giving it to third partys.

 

[Geo]

Well, I think many of us have been waiting 2 years or more for VIA to drop out.