VIA Announces Winners of the VIA K8T800 Shootout Online Contest

Lucky winners chosen from over 8,000 for Hawaii dream holiday and high performance Maxtor 200GB Serial ATA hard drive kits

Taipei, Taiwan, 12 November 2003 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the lucky winner of the grand prize draw of the VIA K8T800 Shootout online contest: an all-inclusive trip for two to Hawaii, as well as the runners-up, who each won a SATA 200GB Hard Drive Kit sponsored by Maxtor.

Competition entrants were required to score 8 goals in 88 seconds in a soccer simulation game in order to be entered into the lucky draw for a chance to win the 8-day holiday in Hawaii for two, as well as weekly prizes of Maxtor Serial ATA Ultra Series 200GB 7200RPM Hard Drive Kits. More than 8,000 people successfully completed the challenge over a five week period ending October 31, including over 2,000 visitors to VIA's booth at Computex Taipei in September, and another 1,400 visitors to VIA's booth at ComNet Shenzhen in October.

Mr. Patrick Lo of Taipei, Taiwan was the lucky grand prize winner, drawn from the 8,000-plus successful participants; Patrick and his girlfriend are now planning their dream trip to Hawaii. A Product Marketing Engineer for MSI Taiwan, Patrick was among the thousands who entered the VIA K8T800 Shootout contest while visiting the VIA booth at Computex 2003 computer show held in Taipei from 22-26 September.

"I'd never won anything before so it took a while for VIA to convince me I had won the trip to Hawaii," said Patrick Lo, VIA K8T800 contest winner. "I actually nearly didn't win as I failed to score eight goals on my first attempt at the game, and only played and successfully entered after returning to the VIA booth at Computex. Thank you, VIA, this is a dream come true!"

The four winners of the Maxtor 200GB Hard Drive Kits were: Joseph Baccarti of Worthington, USA, Ivan Dharma Kartolo of Germany, Dan Murphy of Russellville, USA, and Tommy Lee of Hong Kong.

"The soccer skill basis of the VIA K8T800 Shootout complimented the power and performance of our K8-Series of chipsets for the AMD64 platform, and the '8' theme tied in with our unique Hyper8 technology," commented Shane Dennison, Marketing Manager, VIA Technologies, Inc. "We would like to thank Maxtor for providing superb weekly prizes of leading edge Serial ATA hard drive kits, and, of course, the many thousands of people who took part in this competition."

More details and a picture of the grand prize-giving ceremony can be found on VIA Arena, VIA's product and technical support portal, at: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=367

About the VIA K8T800

The VIA K8T800 chipset with Hyper8 technology is powering next generation 64-bit compatible platforms based around AMD Opteron™ and new Athlon™ 64 processors, including Dual Opteron™ processor based workstations and servers, and Athlon™64 processor based performance PC platforms. Combined with the VIA VT8237R South Bridge, the K8T800 enables an unparalleled range of cutting edge I/O and multimedia features, including a 1.6GHz HyperTransport Bus Link, Native Serial ATA/RAID, AGP 8X, VIA Vinyl Gold 8-channel surround audio, and Gigabit Ethernet.

More information about the VIA K8T800 chipset can be found on the VIA website at:
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=367.

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