Chipmaker VIA forms Embedded Linux partnership
Jul 10, 2001 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsAugsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA today announced it will collaborate with VIA Technologies, a supplier of core logic chipsets, x86 processors and chips for PCs and Internet appliances, to develop an integrated solution for Internet appliances. The collaboration will combine TUXIA's embedded Linux software line, TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology), with VIA's Apollo core logic chipset family to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) reduce research and development costs and product design cycles and bring a new generation of Internet appliances to market.
TASTE will be integrated with the VIA VT6009iTX reference design board and VIA Apollo PLE133 chipset to provide an integrated solution that supports Internet appliances such as multimedia set-top boxes, Web terminals and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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