Grand Hyatt Hotel, Taipei - June 1-3
Beijing International Hotel, Beijing - June 7
VIA would like to thank the following partners for joining us in promoting the Digital Brilliance vision.
Platinum Sponsors
Company
Description
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(AMD) designs and produces microprocessors, Flash
memory devices and low-power processor solutions
for the computer, communications and consumer electronics
industries. AMD is dedicated to helping its customers
deliver standards-based, customer-focused solutions
for technology users, ranging from enterprises to
government agencies and individual consumers. Founded
in 1969, AMD is a Standard & Poor's 500 company
with global operations and manufacturing facilities
in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. For
more information, visit www.amd.com.
Elpida Memory, Inc. is a manufacturer
of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) with headquarters
based in Tokyo, Japan, and sales and marketing operations
located in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia.
Elpida offers a broad range of leading-edge DRAM
products. Elpida is a joint venture company formed
by NEC and Hitachi on December 20, 1999. Elpida
has been in operation since April 2000. For more
information, visit Elpida's World Wide Web site
at www.elpida.com.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is
the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet
technologies for personal and business computing.
The company offers a wide range of products and
services designed to enable people and businesses
throughout the world to realize their full potential.
For more information, go to www.microsoft.com.
Phoenix Technologies develops
a complete product suite of Core System Software,
tools and applications to deliver trusted computing
to digital devices for an Internet-connected world.
Phoenix Technologies helped launch the PC industry
over 25 years ago. Today we are extending our leadership
and knowledge at the core of machines, beyond the
PC to a wide range of platforms and devices.
Phoenix Core System Software has set the standard
for the world's leading branded PC OEMs and their
global network of supply chain and software partners.
Phoenix solutions enable, protect and recover the
world's best-known systems. For more information,
visit www.phoenix.com.
Gold Sponsors
Company
Description
General Software’s embedded x86
firmware solutions enable specialized devices. Full-featured
Embedded BIOS® 2000 adaptation kit has 850+ configurations
for building perfect-fit firmware. The kit provides
fast BIOS deployment, achievable sub-second boot
times, and support for all industry-standard embedded
OSs and VIA Technology’s embedded processor platforms.
Prewritten, ready-to-run firmware applications built
on Firmbase® Technology provide boot security, high
availability and in-field software/BIOS updates.
Applications built on Firmbase® Technology are operating-system
independent, continuously available and able to
survive OS/application crashes. For more information,
please visit www.gensw.com.
Since its establishment in year 2000, iBASE
Technology continues to specialize in the
design and production of IPC products. Combining
the latest technologies with innovation, quality,
and reliability, iBASE aims to be among the first
in providing single board computers and industrial
motherboards with the most advanced technology.
Among its early R&D triumphs was its world's
first Pentium® 4 CPU card and Pentium® 4 industrial
motherboard based on the Intel® 845 chipset. Thriving
in this highly competitive marketplace, iBASE has
worked closely with its partners, providing a variety
of IPC solutions and applications to industries
that range from automation to the fast growing networking
security and surveillance markets.
Affiliate Sponsors
Company
Description
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB)
is a leading global investment bank serving institutional,
corporate, government and individual clients. CSFB’s
businesses include securities underwriting, sales
and trading, investment banking, private equity,
financial advisory services, investment research,
venture capital, correspondent brokerage services
and asset management. CSFB operates in 69 locations
in 33 countries across five continents. The firm
is a business unit of the Zurich-based Credit Suisse
Group, a leading global financial services company.
Founded in 1980, First International Computer, Inc. (FIC) is a world leading company specializing in the design and manufacture of motherboards, PC systems, Small Form Factor systems, AGP graphics cards, and Mobile solutions. FIC is firmly established in both OEM/ODM and distribution markets and is a leading supplier for many of the industry's leading PC brand names. FIC also offers a comprehensive range of motherboards and graphics cards designed exclusively for the distribution market under the FIC brand. The latest information about FIC products and services can be found at www.fic.com.tw.
Gigabyte is dedicated to providing customers with
only the best products -from concept and design,
to mass production, all the way to integration.
The product family of Gigabyte represents a complete
computing solution, from motherboards, graphics
cards, PC peripherals, notebooks, to wireless networking
and servers. The spirit of “Upgrade Your Life” at
Gigabyte is clearly reflected through its commitment
to researching newer technologies and ensuring product
quality. Now and in the future, Gigabyte will continue
to follow its vision of becoming the most valuable
provider of computing solutions in the world.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
was founded in 2003 as a result of the strategic
combination of Hitachi’s and IBM’s storage technology
businesses. Hitachi GST is the industry’s second
largest hard disk drive manufacturer in revenue.
The company’s goal is to enable users to fully engage
in the digital lifestyle by providing access to
large amounts of storage capacity in formats suitable
for the office, on the road and in the home. The
company offers customers worldwide a comprehensive
range of storage products for desktop computers,
high-performance servers and mobile devices. For
more information on Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,
please visit the company's Web site at http://www.hitachigst.com.
ITRI Creativity Laboratory established in March 2004, the Creativity Lab is to nurture an environment for out-of-box thinking and diversified perspectives in addition to those of science and technology. The Lab aims to foster original insights leading to revolutionary inventions and applications that address issues of societal concern in health, leisure, learning, and communication. Its mission is to generate, evaluate, demonstrate ideas, and collaborate with ITRI's existing mechanism towards realization, all through intensive interactions with the industry.
Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.
(SEC) is one of the top-ten electronics manufacturers
in the world and an acknowledged leader in the digital
convergence revolution. Since its inception in 1969,
SEC has successfully transitioned from an analog
driven product line to a cutting-edge and award-winning
digital innovator that is currently the world's
number one manufacturer of CDMA cell phones, LCD
and CRT monitors, DRAM memory chips and microwave
ovens. With worldwide electronic product sales of
$36.9 billion, over 75,000 employees in 87 facilities,
and a global network in 47 countries, Samsung has
been recognized as one of the world's Top 100 Brands
by BusinessWeek magazine.
Exhibitors
Company
Description
For years, ABIT has been known as a company that consistently looks for ways to improve; to find out what is expected, and achieve more than what was thought possible.
This philosophy shapes everything that we do here at ABIT, right down to the very products that we make. Our motherboards not only set new standards for quality, but technologies like SoftMenu™ and OTES™ allow users the flexibility and power to exceed what they would normally expect from a computer system. Products that put power where it truly belongs: In the hands of the user.
C.A.C. Media is a Linux technology company serving the consumer electronics vertical market. The Company's Media Convergence Software Suite (MCSS) is a Linux-based operating system licensed to consumer electronics manufacturers to drive new chip-sets available for their products. Devices powered by MCSS allow manufacturers to integrate traditional consumer electronics (TVs, stereos, home theaters, PVR/DVR, MP3 players, digital cameras, etc.) with digital media asset management and network playback features through a user-interface accessible on consumer's television screens.
Cadence Design Systems is the world’s largest
supplier of EDA technologies and engineering services.
Cadence helps its customers break through their
challenges by providing a new generation of electronic
design solutions that speed advanced IC and system
design to volume.
Chander Electronics Corporation
founded in 1997, is a listed OTC company in Taiwan.
Chander positions itself as a professional IC distributor
and agent for PC consumer, IA and communication
equipment of worldwide brand. Our mission is to
achieve the maximum of customer satisfaction and
provides one-stop shopping, global logistics service.
FAE was founded in 1993 and is a fast growing semiconductor distributor in Taiwan, China & Hong Kong. FAE provides comprehensive product lines to satisfy the need of its customers from different areas. The company is also a proprietary agency for a wide variety of world-renowned electronic products, providing customized technical support and services that are highly trusted and acclaimed by our customers and suppliers.
Silicon Application Corporation (SAC), a leading distributor in semiconductor industry was founded in 1987. With its 655 remarkable employees (AE & FAE / 140) deployed in the sales offices located in Taiwan, H.K., China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, India, Korea, a capital of USD 51M, and the phenomenal growth of revenue (USD856M in 2004), SAC is strong and sound in all aspects. Our main Product Lines in Taiwan include PHILIPS, Infineon, Winbond, OSRAM, SANYO, OKI and VIA.
Tektronix, Inc. is a test, measurement, and monitoring company providing measurement solutions to the communications, computer and semiconductor industries worldwide. With more than 55 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy and manage next-generation global communications networks and advanced technologies. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide. Tektronix' Web address is www.tektronix.com.
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