Editing VIA Technologies (section)

==Products==
{{see also|List of VIA chipsets|List of VIA microprocessor cores|Zhaoxin}}

[[File:VIA KT266A.png|right|thumb|[[List of VIA chipsets#Slot A and Socket A|VIA KT266A]] [[Northbridge (computing)|north bridge]] for [[Socket&nbsp;A]]]]
[[File:VIA Chip on Rosewill.png|left|thumb|A VIA [[USB]] [[PHY]] on a [[newegg.com|Rosewill]]-branded [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI]] USB 2.0 [[Desktop Computer|desktop]] [[expansion card]] ]]
[[File:Onkyo Wavio SE-90PCI VIA Vinyl Envy24MT.jpg|right|thumb|VIA Vinyl Audio Envy24MT chip of a PCI [[sound card]]]]
[[File:Firewire PCI VIA VT6306.jpg|left|thumb|An [[IEEE 1394]] FireWire-400 PCI card with the VIA VT6306 chipset]]

By the mid-1990s, VIA's business focused on integrated chipsets for the PC market. Among PC users then, VIA was best known for its motherboard (core-logic) chipsets. However, VIA's products include audio controllers, network/connectivity controllers, low-power CPUs, and even CD/DVD-writer chipsets. PC and peripheral vendors such as [[ASUS]] then bought the chipsets for inclusion into their own product brands.

In the late 1990s, VIA began diversifying its core-logic business, and the company made business acquisitions forming a CPU division, graphics division, and a sound division. As advances in silicon manufacturing continue to increase the level of integration and functionality in chipsets, VIA acquired these divisions at the time to remain competitive in the core-logic market.

VIA has produced multiple [[x86]] compatible [[CPU]]s, through its acquisitions of [[Cyrix]] and [[Centaur Technology]]. VIA produces CPUs through the [[Zhaoxin]] joint venture. Many of the CPUs are [[Ball grid array|BGA chips]] sold pre-soldered onto a motherboard. Some of the VIA x86 processors also contain an undocumented [[Alternate Instruction Set]].