VIA also to acquire Centaur (IDT's x86 division)

VIA has announced that it will be acquiring Centaur, the designers of the WinChip. This follows its recent agreement to buy Cyrix's high end processor business from National which retains the low-end MediaGX family. Why buy two x86 design houses? Perhaps to address two markets: the information appliance market with IDT's x86 which is slower but remarkably small, and the PC market with Cyrix's Socket 370 designs.