VIA Quits Motherboard Chipset Business

arcticstoat writes "Following the media hit that was VIA's Nano processor, VIA says that it's now quitting the motherboard chipset business that used to be its bread and butter product for years. VIA's vice president of corporate marketing in Taiwan, Richard Brown, explained that: 'Intel provides the vast majority of chipsets for its processors and, following its purchase of ATI, AMD is also moving very quickly in the same direction.' VIA will still be developing chipsets for integrated motherboards featuring the Nano CPU, but will no longer produce chipsets for Intel and AMD CPUs. Was this the right decision, and where does this leave other third-party chipset manufacturers such as SiS?" Seems like this is a tough business to stick around in.

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AMD motherboards?

[gravis777]

Who the heck is going to make chipsets for AMD motherboards now? I used via for years, now they are gone, then I used AMD, which they no longer make chipsets, and my current motherboard has an nVidia chipset? Is this the death of AMD, cause it seems as if the only people still making chipsets now is Intel