VIA Technologies merged its PC chipset division under that of CPUs in the fourth quarter of last year. Going forward the division will mainly focus on supporting the company's own-brand CPU platforms and will slowly phase out of the third-party chipset market, according a Chinese-language Apply Daily report citing sources at the company. The company will still provide support from AMD platforms while continuing the support older Intel products that are not impacted by patent issues, the paper noted.

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