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I already run two blogs about products created and manufactured by VIA Technologies, Inc. - or at least products that feature VIA chips. VIA is a Taiwanese R&D company who compete on many levels with the "big boys" of tech, Intel and AMD. Like Intel and AMD, VIA manufacture x86 processors. Their focus, for at least ten years now, has been on low power consumption and affordability. If you've followed the story from the beginning then it seems like a slow progression, but over those ten years, the qualities that VIA has strived for in their products, have become in demand. Like netbooks, for example, and other mobile Internet devices - you need a processor that has low power consumption to give you the best battery life and devices that don't heat up and burn your lap or hands! And in the embedded scene, VIA's wide range of tiny platform designs like the Mini-ITX, Nano-ITX, Pico-ITX and Em-ITX, give as many features as possible on the smallest real estate possible, with the lowest power consumption possible and the least heat output as possible. So my two blogs follow the netbook craze and the always innovative embedded computing from VIA - both with an Australian focus.
But as I follow VIA, I often find that there is news that doesn't fit into either of these categories very neatly. Part of this is because VIA has a lot of subsiduary companies doing interesting things, like S3 Graphics and WonderMedia. It's those type of miscellaneous VIA activities that I'll follow in this blog - with an Australia focus when there is one.