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To: Road Walker who wrote (127815)	2/19/2001 8:04:30 AM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Via to Introduce Pentium 4 Chipset Without Intel's Permission investor2.cnet.com Taipei, Feb. 19, (Bloomberg) -- Via Technologies Inc., Taiwan's third-largest chipmaker, plans to introduce a chipset for Intel's Pentium 4 processor during a computer show in Germany next month, without formal permission from the world's biggest chip company to do so. While Via has not signed an agreement with Intel to use patents related to the Pentium 4, the Taiwan company said it can produce chipsets for the processor because it has coverage from a joint venture with S3 Inc. that gives it the right to use Intel patents, said Frank Jeng, marketing manager at Via. ''The patent coverage from S3 allows Via to produce chipsets for the Pentium 4,'' said Jeng. ''There's no problem for us to develop chipsets for Intel.'' Via formed a joint venture last August with S3, a chip-design company in California that exchanged technology rights with Intel two years ago. Via more than doubled its share in the chipset market last year mainly at the expense of Intel, which also makes chipsets. Chipsets manage the flow of information between a processor and other parts of a computer such as memory chips and the display. While Intel and Via have not reached an agreement, the Silicon Valley chipmaker last week signed a contract with Acer Laboratories Inc., a Via rival, allowing it to make Pentium 4 chipsets, said Mark Lin, chief auditor at Acer Labs. Via plans to launch a chipset for the Pentium 4 by the end of the first quarter, during the Cebit computer computer trade show in Hanover starting March 22, said Jeng. Acer Laboratories plans to start mass producing a rival chipset in the third quarter of the year at the earliest. Via's shares rose as much as NT$7, or 2 percent, to NT$332 in early trading. Shares in Acer Laboratories rose as much as NT$4, or 6.3 percent to NT$67.50, adding to a 25 percent gain last week. Andreas