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VIA Technologies Inc.

VIA is in the Technology Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$712.8M

Public
TW

Dow Jones Description

Designer, Engineer & Manufacturer of System Logic Chip Sets & Associated Peripherals for Computers

President & CEO

WenChi Chen

Number of Employees 1,709

Contact Information

8F 533 Chung Cheng Rd

Taipei 231

www.viatech.com

(886) 222185452

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing: 334413

Recent Events

VIA Introduces New VIA Nano 3000 Series Processors

11/04/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Stockguru.com: Opti Inc. is in the StockGuru Spotlight for October 5, 2009

10/05/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story
VIA Partners Unveil New NetNote Designs that Highlight HD Content, Digital TV and External MP3...

9/27/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
VIA unveils its 1080p-playing SurfBoard NetNote, we'll still call it a netbook

9/16/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Via adopts Sequans' mobile WiMax chip

9/11/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
CEVA, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

7/29/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
VIA Eden One Watt Processor Brings Power-Efficiency to Fujitsu Thin Clients

7/24/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story

News & Analysis

operational accounting and via technologies inc. - All News and Analysis

Viacom, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-03

Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Imran Khan – JP Morgan. Imran Khan – JP Morgan In terms of affiliate revenue, in the past you talked about double-digit growth, do you see any threat to your international affiliate revenue given the macroeconomic outlook or...

Tags: Revenue, DreamWorks SKG, Call Transcript, Agreement, Earnings, Viacom Inc., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Operational Accounting, Finance, Seeking Alpha, VIA Technologies Inc.
Earnings Preview: Viacom

Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-31

Viacom VIA is expected to report Q3 earnings after the close Monday with a conference call scheduled for 4:30 pm ET. Guidance Analysts are looking for a profit of 55c on revenue of $3.32B. The consensus range is 53c to 63c for EPS, and revenue of $3.03B to $3.91B,...

Tags: Earnings, Viacom Inc., Seeking Alpha, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, theflyonthewall.com, VIA Technologies Inc., Media
Earnings Preview: Viacom

Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-31

Viacom VIA is expected to report Q3 earnings after market close Monday Nov. 3, with a conference call scheduled for 4:30 pm ET. Guidance Analysts are looking for a profit of 55c on revenue of $3.32B. The consensus range is 53c to 63c for EPS, and revenue of $3.03B to...

Tags: Revenue, Earnings, Viacom Inc., Seeking Alpha, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, theflyonthewall.com, VIA Technologies Inc., Media
Media Giants Threatened by Giant Loan Payments: How Will They React?

Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-22

Diane Mermigas submits: The loan covenant issues threatening Viacom VIA and CBS CBS underscore the unexpected, devastating impact the credit crisis and the recession will have on even the biggest media concerns, some of whose repayment and cash flow issues have not yet come to light. The resulting realignment of...

Tags: Payment, CBS Corp., Viacom Inc., Seeking Alpha, Diane Mermigas, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Media Players, Marketing, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, VIA Technologies Inc., Media

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio)	Position
WenChi Chen	President & CEO
Miller Chen	Cfo
Tzu Mu Lin	Senior Vice President, Res & Development Engineering
Tzu-Mu Lin	Senior Vice President, R & D Engineering
Richard Brown	Vice President of Marketing, Via Technologies, Inc
John Gatt	Director, Marketing
Andre Chen	Software Engineer
Chris Bennetts	International Marketing Specialist
Jayan Ramankutty

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio)	Position
Cher Wang	Chairman

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	President & CEO	Current

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Cfo	Current

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Senior Vice President, Res & Development Engineering	Current

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Senior Vice President, R & D Engineering	Current

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Vice President of Marketing, Via Technologies, Inc	Current

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Director, Marketing	Current

Andre is a self-taught programmer who holds master degree in mathematics of Taiwan National Central University . He started his career as a game programmer at Gamania Inc. ( http://www.gamania.com/ ) in 2002. After gained some basic 3D programming concepts, he quickly delved into shading language and he is now familiar with both OpenGL and Direct3D shader programming(He was also a proof reader of ShaderX2). He is currently a software engineer of Graphics Architecture team at VIA Technologies, Inc. ( http://www.viatech.com/ ). A leading innovator and developer of PC core logic chipsets, microprocessors, communication and multimedia graphics chips.

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Software Engineer	Current
Shaderx		Current
SHADERX4		Current

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	International Marketing Specialist	Current

Jayan Ramankutty ('71) is Vice President of Cypress Semiconductor's Data Communications division, and co-founder and Director of Empowertel. Jayan was founder, President and COO of Lara Networks, Inc., which he sold to Cypress Semiconductor in 2000. He has held various senior level technical and management positions in Alliance Semiconductor, VIA Technologies and Elxsi. He also founded, and sold Nimbus Technology to Alliance Semiconductor prior to going IPO. Jayan has over 18 years of extensive experience in the field of research, design and development of large, multi-processor computer systems, complex ASICs and SoCs targeted towards networking and telecommunication markets. Jayan holds an MS in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University and a BE (Hons) EEE from BITS.

Organization	Position	Status
ELXSI Corporation		Current
VIA Technologies, Inc.		Current
Bitsaa	Chair, Projects & Disbursements	Current
Lara Networks, Inc.	Founder, President	Former
Alliance Semiconductor Corp.	Founder	Former
San Jose State University	Ms In Computer Engineering	Former

Organization	Position	Status
VIA Technologies, Inc.	Chairman	Current

Executive News

Audio Codecs support Blu-ray disc audio content protection.

ThomasNet - 5/29/09 - View Story
CyberLink Partners With VIA To Deliver Lossless HD Audio Playback

CDRLabs.com - 5/28/09 - View Story
Dell`s New "Ultra-Light" Server Offers Extreme Density and Lowest Power Draw in the Industry

Reuters - 5/19/09 - View Story
Dell's New "Ultra-Light" Server Offers Extreme Density and Lowest Power Draw in the Industry

Forbes.com - 5/19/09 - View Story