Tokyo joins Taipei and Beijing as VTF2003 venues to extend regional scope and take advantage of close customer and partner links

Taipei, Taiwan, Monday 11 August 2003 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that the fourth annual VIA Technology Forum would take place in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday 30th September 2003. VTF Tokyo joins VTF Taipei and Beijing to represent a strategic triangle of the region’s key IT capital cities, and will draw upon VIA’s close links with leading industry players in Japan.

At the same time, VIA announced that VTF2003 has attracted key sponsors to the event, including AMD, Microsoft, Maxtor, Elpida, Hynix, Infineon, Micron and Phoenix.

“VTF sponsor feedback indicated a desire to expand VTF2003 in the region and to take advantage of VIA’s strategic location and industry cooperation, so we are delighted to add Tokyo to the VTF2003 schedule,” said Richard Brown, Associate Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. “Blending leading-edge Japanese computing expertise into VTF will enrich the event and further raise the profile of VTF, providing greater value for our sponsors and ensuring a fine technology, product and market mix.”

VTF2003 will open at VTF Taipei on Wednesday 24th September, in the middle of the rescheduled Computex Taipei 2003 to maximize synergy for overseas customers, partners and press. VTF Beijing will follow on Friday 26th September, with VTF Tokyo taking place on Tuesday 30th September. The main audience for VTF Tokyo will be key engineering and technical management from Japan’s highly innovative IT and consumer electronics industry.

For more information on the VIA Technology Forum 2003, please visit the website at:

<http://www.via.com.tw/vtf.jsp>.

About VIA Technology Forum

The VIA Technology Forum (VTF) showcases VIA’s commitment to develop an innovative open architecture technology platform that enables our partners to design, manufacture and market products that exploit the possibilities and enhance the scope and utility of Internet connectivity. The theme, ‘Total Connectivity: The Revolution’ reflects how the PC platform is completing the revolution from a computing machine to a connecting device that fits smoothly into our living environment, and embraces the key elements of VIA’s Total Connectivity vision, including convergence, pervasive connectivity, increased functionality in mobile devices and the trend towards smaller and quieter systems, and looks at how they have created a momentum in the industry for system design innovation, making the living room PC and the always-connected consumer a reality.

The technology tracks this year are Performance Computing, looking at key technologies that will drive further advances in performance in home and enterprise systems, including performance processing, memory technologies, and peripheral and chip interconnects; and Connected Lifestyle, covering elements of the Total Connected lifestyle, from technology trends in notebooks, mobile devices and phones, to digital media platforms and embedded applications, with a focus on real end market applications.

About VTF2002

Opened by Republic of China President Chen Shui-Bian in Taipei in October, VTF2002 attracted a high quality audience of over 1,200 industry professionals and accredited international press and analysts. VTF Beijing attracting over 450 key representatives from China’s burgeoning IT industry, and senior government officials. Keynote presentations on the future of the industry were given by VIA, AMD, Microsoft, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Maxtor, Micron, Wyse and Advantech. Technology tracks followed the Forum’s theme of Total Connectivity for the home, enterprise and mobile sectors, and covered a wide range of technology, application and market subjects.

VTF2002 was supported by a record 48 sponsoring organizations, representing a 17% increase on the previous year’s event, with over 42% also having supported VTF2001, clearly underlining the increasing strategic significance that the VIA Technology Forum has established within the regional and global PC infrastructure.



About VIA Technologies, Inc.

VIA Technologies, Inc. is the foremost fabless supplier of market-leading core logic chipsets, low power x86 processors, advanced connectivity, multimedia, networking and storage silicon, and complete platform solutions that are driving system innovation in the PC and embedded markets. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, VIA’s global network links the high tech centers of the US, Europe and Asia, and its customer base includes the world’s top OEMs, motherboard vendors and system integrators. VIA is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE2388) and achieved annual revenues of over US$720 million in 2002. http://www.via.com.tw