China's Facebook now supported by VIA phone chips

Facebook is technical banned in China and although many people do still manage to use it, Weibo is in Chinese and far more popular. It's not quite the same thing as Facebook, it's more like micro-blogging than social connectivity. China Telecom, which is China's largest telecom service provider, signed an agreement last week with the owners of Weibo, Sina, so that China Telecom users can automatically log into their Sina accounts and access Weibo on their phones. As a CDMA chip provider, VIA Telecom participated in the launch, indicated that their chips would support Weibo too. Source: TelecomPaper.com

VIA's USB 3.0 chip certified

VIA's USB controller chips are still featured on heaps of motherboards and PCI cards. These days the USB chips are handled by VIA Labs and they've just announced USB-IF certifcation for their USB 3.0 Host Controller.

Digitimes says: "VIA Labs has already tapped the China market, and obtaining USB 3.0 Host certification will reinforce its marketing strength there."

No doubt that is quite correct. Most USB 2.0 PCI cards that feature VIA chips are made in China, often by unknown brands ... or unbranded when they go on sale at Dick Smith's anyway!

VIA Nano X2 wipes the floor with Intel Atom

A website titled "Bright Side of the News" is certainly an appropriate name for a site releasing news about a VIA whitepaper that was released recently which shows the VIA Nano X2 processor totally besting the dual-core Intel Atom. This is a VIA whitepaper, so obviously they're only going to publish favorable results, but they are none the less impressive. - Source.