History
Centaur Technologies Inc. was founded in April 1995 by Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Darius Gaskins, and Al Sato. The funding came from Integrated Device Technology, Inc (IDT). The business goal was to develop compatible x86 processors that were much less expensive than Intel processors and consumed much less power.
There were two fundamental elements of the plan. First, a unique design, developed from scratch, of an x86 processor core optimized differently than Intel's cores. Second, a unique management approach designed to achieve high productivity.
While founded by IDT, three different Centaur designs were shipped under the marketing name of WinChip. In September 1999, Centaur was purchased from IDT by VIA Technologies, a Taiwanese company. Since then, five designs have shipped with marketing name of VIA C3, quite a number of designs as the VIA C7 processor, and their latest 64-bit CPU, the VIA Nano.
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