From home entertainment systems and affordable slim and light notebooks to video conferencing and retail devices, VIA’s x86 processor platforms inspire tremendous design and function innovation for tomorrow’s connected and interoperable digital devices

Taipei, Taiwan, 22 September 2003 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced a whole host of innovative new VIA processor platform based systems on display at VIA’s booths at Computex 2003, in Hall 2 Booth E136 and Hall 3 Booth G300, that clearly demonstrate the versatility and suitability of the x86 platform for the Totally Connected lifestyle.

The twenty stylish systems target a wide range of applications that include connected home entertainment, mobile computing, communication, telematics, commerce and networking, and highlight the form factor flexibility made possible by VIA’s highly efficient processor platforms and the VIA EPIA Mini-ITX series of mainboards. Also on display are some unique PC cases that illustrate how VIA platforms enable the imagination to be let loose in system design.

“VIA’s distributed performance approach to processor platform design harnesses