@slaine But even a "truckload" is basically not much compared to #Intel & #AMD, because #VIA basically never did anything beyond "#LowEnd", #Chipset, #Peripherals and #Embedded, whereas with both Intel & AMD one can go from the tinyiest < 5W SoC for fanless Thin Clients up to Dual & Quad-Socket Multt-Core Servers that have more PCIe lanes than any systems integrator could saturate with NVMe drives and GPUs in a 2U - 4U chassis!
- And again: I wanted to get my hands on VIA stuff because it was neat and cool looking but I wasn't in the position to open up like a GmbH and negotiate deals with distributors just to get my hands on some reference board & case.
Whereas AMD & Intel managed to make deals with a shitload of OEMs and that's why modern #ThinClients rock AMD G-Series and Intel Atom SoCs.
- So far their move to making #ARM-SoC's didn't change that but rather worsen it.
Add to that how the German subsidiary of VIA got axed and there wasn't even like someone I could mail or fax for a list of distributors that would actually sell to me as an individual.
