Inside VIA: Beneath the Hull of WenChi's Ship

Inside VIA's Testing Labs

While we didn't see any 10GHz ALUs running at room temperature (which in Tapei is quite high) at VIA, a tour of one of their testing labs was interesting nonetheless.

VIA's Testing Team: Hard at Work

The primary focus of this particular lab is BIOS testing and engineering. The lab was carpeted and most of the engineers weren't properly grounded; the whole operation was very much like the classic "parents garage" setup but with some very expensive oscilloscopes, voltage probes and logic analyzers. You had a group of engineers at their best but without the polished environment of a similar lab we saw at Intel in Hillsboro.

Motherboards line the shelves - the one on the far left is an old AT Socket-7 board.