WonderMedia was a

fabless Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclus ...

SoC company headquartered in

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. It is a subsidiary of

VIA Technologies VIA Technologies Inc. (), is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory. It was the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA c ...

. It is notable for creating the low cost

processor Processor may refer to: Computing Hardware * Processor (computing) **Central processing unit (CPU), the hardware within a computer that executes a program *** Microprocessor, a central processing unit contained on a single integrated circuit (I ...

s used in many Chinese Android and Windows CE-based devices. The SoC designs are collectively called the WonderMedia PRIZM platform and are based on the reference implementations provided by

ARM Holdings Arm is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England. Its primary business is in the design of ARM processors (CPUs). It also designs other chips, provides software development tools under the DS-5, RealView an ...

. In 2016, WonderMedia was merged to VIA Technologies.【公告】威盛電子與子公司─威信科電股份有限公司簡易合併案
Central News Agency via Yahoo! Taiwan. 2016-3-11.

Products

File:Wishtel IRA Thing Tablet - 45 Degree Angle (7007864695).jpg,

Wishtel WishTel is an Indian manufacturing company that produce various IT products, founded in Mumbai by Milind Shah. The manufacturing facilities are currently in Maharashtra and Gujarat. WishTel is an Indian IT products manufacturing company. On 23 ...

IRA Thing tablet features the WM8650 File:Wondermedia PRIZM WM8750 - Chipset (5754333896).jpg, WM8750 File:VIA APC 8750 - CPU (14488722100).jpg, WM8750 on

VIA APC The VIA APC is a low-cost ($49) single-board computer from VIA Technologies designed to run the Android operating system. It has been available for purchase since July 2012. Since January 2013 enhanced versions are available for purchase at a high ...

8750 File:WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950 - Chipset (6514565011).jpg, WM8950

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* {{Commonscat Fabless semiconductor companies VIA Technologies ARM architecture Semiconductor companies of Taiwan Defunct manufacturing companies of Taiwan