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HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA

Posted by Unknown on from the patent-warfare dept.

jones_supa writes "The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has bought the graphics department of VIA Technologies, S3 Graphics. This $300 million dollar deal brings HTC the ownership of new patents and graphics visualization technologies. 'In addition to its traditional markets in PCs and game consoles, S3 Graphics Texture Compression technology is increasingly being applied to smartphones and tablets, HTC said.'" It appears that HTC will be turning the tables on at least Microsoft and extracting royalties from them for a change.

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  1. VIA? LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Smart move because VIA is known for such outstanding quality.

  2. S3 Savage Handheld by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 2, Funny

    So will HTC's smart phones get VESA3 support, terrible OpenGL, an annoying "InControl99" panel and the most unstable crashiest video drivers on the planet?