VIA Technologies, Inc. is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory. It was once the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries such as TSMC. VIA is also the parent company of VIA Labs Inc. As an independently traded subsidiary, VLI develops and markets USB 3, USB4, USB Type-C, and USB PD controllers for computer peripherals and mobile devices. Wikipedia