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VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies, Inc. (Chinese: å¨ç››é›»å; pinyin: WÄ“ishèng Dià nzÇ) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboardchipsets, CPUs, and memory. It was once the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual (silicon) manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries such as TSMC.
VIA is also the parent company of VIA Labs Inc. (VLI, Chinese: å¨é‹’é›»å). As an independently traded subsidiary, VLI develops and markets USB3, USB4, USB Type-C, and USB PD controllers for computer peripherals and mobile devices.