Via posts strong rise in sales

EARLIER TODAY Via announced a massive 64% year-on-year rise in sales for the first six months of 2006, from its combined motherboard, CPU, chipset and peripheral chip divisions, increasing to just under $443 million.

That's quite a hefty amount over the $270 million it did in the same period last year, and despite the delays in launching the C7 range of chips. However, it must be noted that a large amount of this is likely to be due to the Intel-imposed deadline of 31st March for last time shipments of any of the C3 range of processors. Distributors placed huge orders with Via to be delivered before this date to try to guarantee a supply to board makers until the end of 2007.

But despite this, revenues in June were still up an impressive 16% over June 2005, even after C3 shipments had completely stopped, so the rest of Via's sales can't have been doing too badly either. µ