VIA's Cher Wang listed in Forbes most powerful women

Forbes put out a list in May 2013 of the most powerful women in the world. VIA's own Cher Wang was listed in the 46th spot, up from last year's #56 spot. VIA wasn't mentioned in the write-up with the focus being on HTC.

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John Peddie research takes a look at SoC

Research by John Peddie Inc. has shown that Imagination Technologies Imagination sells more GPU IP than any other supplier by selling to several SoCs, but Qualcomm is the largest SoC supplier, and uses their own GPU design. The boom in this industry segment is of course do you smartphones and tablets. WonderMedia/VIA is noted in the article as a buyer of GPU IP.

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Case mod memory lane: Aircraft carrier

Why isn't case modding a popular hobby like it once was? Look at what you can achieve with an idea, some glue, a model kit and a low profile, low heat, fully integrated VIA embedded board:

The modder, Rus Caslis, explains:
"So I was walking around a toy store waiting for my wife to finish looking at the Barbie toys one day (before anyone asks, yes, she is more than eight years old and I love the fact that she is still into toys) and I saw this cool looking toy of the aircraft carrier Enterprise. I looked closer at it, and thought that it might be big enough to hold one of those great Mini-ITX motherboards from VIA. Since the toy was only $19.99, I decided to get it. Upon getting home, I ripped open the box and confirmed that the width of the toy at it's largest area was a little over 17cm wide. The Mini-ITX would be a tight fit, but it would work."

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