VIA Technologies

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VIA Technologies, Inc.
威盛電子

Company type	Public
Traded as	TWSE: 2388
Industry	Computer Hardware Custom Embedded Electronics
Founded	1987; 37 years ago (1987) Fremont, California, United States
Headquarters	New Taipei City , Taiwan, ROC
Products	Chipsets, motherboards, CPUs
Revenue	[1]
Number of employees	2,000[2]
Website	ViaTech.com

VIA Technologies, Inc. (Chinese: 威盛電子; pinyin: Wēishèng Diànzǐ) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory. It was the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets.^{[citation needed]} 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: 威鋒電子). As an independently traded subsidiary,^[3] VLI develops and markets USB 3, USB 4, USB Type-C, and USB PD controllers for computer peripherals and mobile devices.^[4]