Another win for Qualcomm

As older companies evolve, NIH gets tossed aside. Unable to sustain the massive R&D costs of being a front-line semiconductor and system supplier, Via Technologies has given up on their S3 and Via graphics and their low-power x86 processors in favor of an OTS high volume, and very powerful SoC from Qualcomm. Hoping to participate in the automotive subsystems market against companies like Nvidia, Intel, and Freescale/NXP/Qualcomm, Via has chosen Qualcomm’s 820 as the SoC for their platform for IoT and embedded systems.  Of all the OTS SoCs to choose from, including the popular and local (to Via) MediaTek, this