Taiwan-based chipmaker VIA Technologies has ventured into digital content services business with the establishment of a subsidiary, VIA OnDemand, which will offer content including music, video and games, to PC systems, household multimedia centers, Windows Mobile-based smartphones and PDAs, and other handheld devices, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
VIA OnDemand is scheduled to go online by the end of September of this year and its software can be installed on related system products built by VIA Technologies or OEM devices built by High Tech Computer (HTC), said VIA OnDemand CEO Timothy Chen, the paper stated.
Chen, a nephew of VIA and HTC chairman Cher Wang, said he is also serving as chairman of smartphone vendor Dopod.
Article translated by Steve Shen and edited by Michael McManus
