News Release
VIA Technology Forum 2003 Extends to Tokyo, Garners
Key Sponsors
Tokyo joins Taipei and Beijing as VTF2003 venues to
extend regional scope and take advantage of close customer
and partner links
Taipei, Taiwan, Monday 11 August 2003 - VIA Technologies,
Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip
technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced
that the fourth annual VIA Technology Forum would take
place in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday 30th September 2003.
VTF Tokyo joins VTF Taipei and Beijing to represent
a strategic triangle of the region's key IT capital
cities, and will draw upon VIA's close links with leading
industry players in Japan.
At the same time, VIA announced that VTF2003 has attracted
key sponsors to the event, including AMD, Microsoft,
Maxtor, Elpida, Hynix, Infineon, Micron and Phoenix.
"VTF sponsor feedback indicated a desire to expand
VTF2003 in the region and to take advantage of VIA's
strategic location and industry cooperation, so we are
delighted to add Tokyo to the VTF2003 schedule,"
said Richard Brown, Associate Vice President of Marketing,
VIA Technologies, Inc. "Blending leading-edge Japanese
computing expertise into VTF will enrich the event and
further raise the profile of VTF, providing greater
value for our sponsors and ensuring a fine technology,
product and market mix."
VTF2003 will open at VTF Taipei on Wednesday 24th September,
in the middle of the rescheduled Computex Taipei 2003
to maximize synergy for overseas customers, partners
and press. VTF Beijing will follow on Friday 26th September,
with VTF Tokyo taking place on Tuesday 30th September.
The main audience for VTF Tokyo will be key engineering
and technical management from Japan's highly innovative
IT and consumer electronics industry.
For more information on the VIA Technology Forum 2003,
please visit the website at:
http://www.via.com.tw/vtf.jsp.
About VIA Technology Forum
The VIA Technology Forum (VTF) showcases VIA's commitment
to develop an innovative open architecture technology
platform that enables our partners to design, manufacture
and market products that exploit the possibilities and
enhance the scope and utility of Internet connectivity.
The theme, 'Total Connectivity: The Revolution' reflects
how the PC platform is completing the revolution from
a computing machine to a connecting device that fits
smoothly into our living environment, and embraces the
key elements of VIA's Total Connectivity vision, including
convergence, pervasive connectivity, increased functionality
in mobile devices and the trend towards smaller and
quieter systems, and looks at how they have created
a momentum in the industry for system design innovation,
making the living room PC and the always-connected consumer
a reality.
The technology tracks this year are Performance Computing,
looking at key technologies that will drive further
advances in performance in home and enterprise systems,
including performance processing, memory technologies,
and peripheral and chip interconnects; and Connected
Lifestyle, covering elements of the Total Connected
lifestyle, from technology trends in notebooks, mobile
devices and phones, to digital media platforms and embedded
applications, with a focus on real end market applications.
About VTF2002
Opened by Republic of China President Chen Shui-Bian
in Taipei in October, VTF2002 attracted a high quality
audience of over 1,200 industry professionals and accredited
international press and analysts. VTF Beijing attracting
over 450 key representatives from China's burgeoning
IT industry, and senior government officials. Keynote
presentations on the future of the industry were given
by VIA, AMD, Microsoft, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company, Maxtor, Micron, Wyse and Advantech. Technology
tracks followed the Forum's theme of Total Connectivity
for the home, enterprise and mobile sectors, and covered
a wide range of technology, application and market subjects.
VTF2002 was supported by a record 48 sponsoring organizations,
representing a 17% increase on the previous year's event,
with over 42% also having supported VTF2001, clearly
underlining the increasing strategic significance that
the VIA Technology Forum has established within the
regional and global PC infrastructure.
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