VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 22, 2004 @10:35AM from the earth-day-special dept.

linuxprox writes "VIA announced today that their AS-1210 motherboard will be the world's first lead-free motherboard. 'The transition to 'green' manufacturing for VIA has been very smooth and we have been able to ship lead-free processors and chipsets since the end of last year,' said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. 'The AS-1210 clearly demonstrates the technology leadership of VIA and Yamashita in being the first to market with a lead-free motherboard that meets the requirements of the international market.'"

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Man... by Carlos+Silva · 2004-04-22 10:47 · Score: 0, Redundant

Get the lead out! Bad joke, i know :)
Won't help me by zackeller · 2004-04-22 11:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

I plan on using it forever!!! No dumpster for me!
Expression by wpiman · 2004-04-22 13:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

God- didn't these guys realize "get the lead out" was just an expression. They didn't get the memo?