VDC Research spent an hour with VIA Embedded in Europe. We felt as if we were witnessing the loud, soft re-launch of VIA Embedded.
The company officially came into existence in 2008. However, the abject turmoil in the embedded market during the past 18 months washed away some of the power of the original launch.
What was loud about it? Three things:
We have a sneaking suspicion that the independent systems integrators that are gaining share in the embedded market are going to notice this. And as embedded deployers more toward these ISIs for their next generation of solutions, we think they will see VIA too.
The company officially came into existence in 2008. However, the abject turmoil in the embedded market during the past 18 months washed away some of the power of the original launch.
What was loud about it? Three things:
- The EITX Platforms. VIA is again taking a leadership position in high density, scalable, mission critical platforms with this new approach. What we liked best was the multi-layered platform approach. The 3000 board represents the general purpose platform. Rich embedded I/O support. 7-36 VDC on-board. It offers a high density lower-power package.
- The EITX 3110/ 3210/ 3410 extension boards. A series of function-optimized boards extend the 3000 platform in any number of directions: massive I/O expansion, GPU support and more.
- Lifecycle support. VIA is exceeding the minimum lifecycle support requirements that are so critical to the embedded space: 3 years for boards, 5 years for systems and 7 years for silicon.
We have a sneaking suspicion that the independent systems integrators that are gaining share in the embedded market are going to notice this. And as embedded deployers more toward these ISIs for their next generation of solutions, we think they will see VIA too.
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