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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">Traded as</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Stock_Exchange" title="Taiwan Stock Exchange">TWSE</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.twse.com.tw/pdf/en/2388_en.pdf">2388</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Computer Hardware</li><li>Custom Embedded Electronics</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1987<span class="noprint">; 38 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1987</span>)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont, California</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/New_Taipei_City" title="New Taipei City">New Taipei City</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name"><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of China">ROC</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chipset" title="Chipset">Chipsets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Motherboard" title="Motherboard">motherboards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPUs</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><sup id="cite_ref-Revenue_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Revenue-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,000<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.viatech.com/en/">ViaTech.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>VIA Technologies, Inc.</b> (<a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">威盛電子</span>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Wēishèng Diànzǐ</span></i>) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of <a href="/wiki/Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">integrated circuits</a>, mainly <a href="/wiki/Motherboard" title="Motherboard">motherboard</a> <a href="/wiki/Chipset" title="Chipset">chipsets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPUs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Computer_memory" title="Computer memory">memory</a>. It was the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> As a <a href="/wiki/Fabless_semiconductor_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabless semiconductor company">fabless semiconductor company</a>, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual (<a href="/wiki/Silicon" title="Silicon">silicon</a>) manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries such as <a href="/wiki/TSMC" title="TSMC">TSMC</a>. </p><p>VIA is also the <a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">parent company</a> of <b>VIA Labs Inc.</b> (VLI, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">威鋒電子</span>). As an independently traded <a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">subsidiary</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VLI develops and markets <a href="/wiki/USB_3" class="mw-redirect" title="USB 3">USB 3</a>, <a href="/wiki/USB_4" class="mw-redirect" title="USB 4">USB 4</a>, <a href="/wiki/USB_Type-C" class="mw-redirect" title="USB Type-C">USB Type-C</a>, and <a href="/wiki/USB_PD" class="mw-redirect" title="USB PD">USB PD</a> controllers for computer peripherals and mobile devices.<sup id="cite_ref-nilsson2010_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nilsson2010-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VIA_Technologies&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company was founded in 1987, in <a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont, California</a>, USA by <a href="/wiki/Cher_Wang" title="Cher Wang">Cher Wang</a>. In 1992, it was decided to move the headquarters to <a href="/wiki/Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a>, Taiwan in order to establish closer partnerships with the substantial and growing IT manufacturing base in Taiwan and neighbouring China.<sup id="cite_ref-ComHistory_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ComHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, VIA acquired most of <a href="/wiki/Cyrix" title="Cyrix">Cyrix</a>, then a division of <a href="/wiki/National_Semiconductor" title="National Semiconductor">National Semiconductor</a>. That same year, VIA acquired <a href="/wiki/Centaur_Technology" title="Centaur Technology">Centaur Technology</a> from <a href="/wiki/Integrated_Device_Technology" title="Integrated Device Technology">Integrated Device Technology</a>, marking its entry into the <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">x86</a> <a href="/wiki/Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">microprocessor</a> market. VIA is the maker of the <a href="/wiki/VIA_C3" title="VIA C3">VIA C3</a>, <a href="/wiki/VIA_C7" title="VIA C7">VIA C7</a> & <a href="/wiki/VIA_Nano" title="VIA Nano">VIA Nano</a> processors, and the <a href="/wiki/EPIA" title="EPIA">EPIA</a> platform. The Cyrix <a href="/wiki/MediaGX" title="MediaGX">MediaGX</a> platform remained with National Semiconductor. </p><p>In 2001, VIA established the <a href="/wiki/S3_Graphics" title="S3 Graphics">S3 Graphics</a> joint venture. </p><p>In January 2005, VIA began the <a href="/wiki/VIA_pc-1_Initiative" title="VIA pc-1 Initiative">VIA pc-1 Initiative</a>, to develop information and communication technology systems to benefit those with no access to computers or Internet. In February 2005, VIA celebrated production of the 100 millionth VIA AMD chipset. </p><p>On 29 August 2008, VIA announced that they would release official 2D accelerated Linux drivers for their chipsets, and would also release 3D accelerated drivers.<sup id="cite_ref-SlashdotVia_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SlashdotVia-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2008, VIA Labs, Inc. (VLI) was founded as a wholly-owned subsidiary of VIA Technologies Inc. (VIA) to develop and market integrated circuits primarily for USB 3.0. VLI was intended to be a "smaller and thus more agile" company that can quickly respond to the changing market.<sup id="cite_ref-nilsson2010_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nilsson2010-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It would later become an independently traded subsidiary in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, VIA entered into an agreement with the <a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Municipal_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Shanghai Municipal Government">Shanghai Municipal Government</a> to create a fabless semiconductor company called <a href="/wiki/Zhaoxin" title="Zhaoxin">Zhaoxin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2018-01-03-hexus_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2018-01-03-hexus-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The joint venture is producing x86 compatible CPUs for the Chinese market.<sup id="cite_ref-2018-01-02-hexus_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2018-01-02-hexus-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2021, Intel recruited some of the employees of the <a href="/wiki/Centaur_Technology" title="Centaur Technology">Centaur Technology</a> division from VIA, a deal worth $125 million, and effectively acquiring the talent and know-how of the x86 division.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VIA retained the x86 licence and associated patents, and its Zhaoxin CPU joint-venture continues.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VIA_Technologies&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_VIA_chipsets" title="List of VIA chipsets">List of VIA chipsets</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VIA_microprocessor_cores" title="List of VIA microprocessor cores">List of VIA microprocessor cores</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zhaoxin" title="Zhaoxin">Zhaoxin</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VIA_KT266A.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/VIA_KT266A.png/220px-VIA_KT266A.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/VIA_KT266A.png/330px-VIA_KT266A.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/VIA_KT266A.png/440px-VIA_KT266A.png 2x" data-file-width="2465" data-file-height="2585" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/List_of_VIA_chipsets#Slot_A_and_Socket_A" title="List of VIA chipsets">VIA KT266A</a> <a href="/wiki/Northbridge_(computing)" title="Northbridge (computing)">north bridge</a> for <a href="/wiki/Socket_A" title="Socket A">Socket A</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png/220px-VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png/330px-VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png/440px-VIA_Chip_on_Rosewill.png 2x" data-file-width="1464" data-file-height="695" /></a><figcaption>A VIA <a href="/wiki/USB" title="USB">USB</a> <a href="/wiki/PHY" class="mw-redirect" title="PHY">PHY</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Newegg.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Newegg.com">Rosewill</a>-branded <a href="/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect" title="Peripheral Component Interconnect">PCI</a> USB 2.0 <a href="/wiki/Desktop_Computer" class="mw-redirect" title="Desktop Computer">desktop</a> <a href="/wiki/Expansion_card" title="Expansion card">expansion card</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg/220px-Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg/330px-Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg/440px-Onkyo_Wavio_SE-90PCI_VIA_Vinyl_Envy24MT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1189" data-file-height="891" /></a><figcaption>VIA Vinyl Audio Envy24MT chip of a PCI <a href="/wiki/Sound_card" title="Sound card">sound card</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg/220px-Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg/330px-Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg/440px-Firewire_PCI_VIA_VT6306.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2867" data-file-height="2574" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/IEEE_1394" title="IEEE 1394">IEEE 1394</a> FireWire-400 PCI card with the VIA VT6306 chipset</figcaption></figure> <p>By the mid-1990s, VIA's business focused on integrated chipsets for the PC market. Among PC users then, VIA was best known for its motherboard (core-logic) chipsets. However, VIA's products include audio controllers, network/connectivity controllers, low-power CPUs, and even CD/DVD-writer chipsets. PC and peripheral vendors such as <a href="/wiki/ASUS" class="mw-redirect" title="ASUS">ASUS</a> then bought the chipsets for inclusion into their own product brands. </p><p>In the late 1990s, VIA began diversifying its core-logic business, and the company made business acquisitions forming a CPU division, graphics division, and a sound division. As advances in silicon manufacturing continue to increase the level of integration and functionality in chipsets, VIA acquired these divisions at the time to remain competitive in the core-logic market. </p><p>VIA has produced multiple <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">x86</a> compatible <a href="/wiki/CPU" class="mw-redirect" title="CPU">CPUs</a>, through its acquisitions of <a href="/wiki/Cyrix" title="Cyrix">Cyrix</a> and <a href="/wiki/Centaur_Technology" title="Centaur Technology">Centaur Technology</a>. VIA produces CPUs through the <a href="/wiki/Zhaoxin" title="Zhaoxin">Zhaoxin</a> joint venture. Many of the CPUs are <a href="/wiki/Ball_grid_array" title="Ball grid array">BGA chips</a> sold pre-soldered onto a motherboard. Some of the VIA x86 processors also contain an undocumented <a href="/wiki/Alternate_Instruction_Set" title="Alternate Instruction Set">Alternate Instruction Set</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Market_trends">Market trends</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VIA_Technologies&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Market trends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>By 1996, VIA established itself as an important supplier of PC components with its chipsets for <a href="/wiki/Socket_7" title="Socket 7">Socket 7</a> platform. With the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_VP3" title="Apollo VP3">Apollo VP3</a> chipset in 1997 VIA pioneered <a href="/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port" title="Accelerated Graphics Port">AGP</a> support for Socket 7 processors.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VIA's market position between 1998 and 2000 derived from the success of its <a href="/wiki/Pentium_III" title="Pentium III">Pentium III</a> chipsets. Around 2001 <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a> discontinued the development of its <a href="/wiki/SDRAM" class="mw-redirect" title="SDRAM">SDRAM</a> chipsets, and stated as policy that only RDRAM memory would be supported going forward. Since <a href="/wiki/RDRAM" title="RDRAM">RDRAM</a> was more expensive and offered few, if any, obvious performance advantages, manufacturers found they could ship performance-equivalent PCs at a lower cost by using VIA chipsets. </p><p>In response to increasing market competition, VIA acquired the ailing <a href="/wiki/S3_Graphics" title="S3 Graphics">S3 Graphics</a> business in 2001. While the S3 Savage chipset was not fast enough to survive as a discrete graphics product, its low manufacturing cost made it an ideal for integration with the VIA <a href="/wiki/Northbridge_(computing)" title="Northbridge (computing)">northbridge</a>. At the time under VIA, the S3 brand generally held about 10% share of the PC graphics market, behind <a href="/wiki/Intel_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Intel Corporation">Intel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a>. VIA also included the <a href="/wiki/VIA_Envy" class="mw-redirect" title="VIA Envy">VIA Envy</a> soundcard on its motherboards, which offered 24-bit sound. While its <a href="/wiki/Pentium_4" title="Pentium 4">Pentium 4</a> chipset designs struggled to win market share in the face of legal threats from Intel, the <a href="/wiki/VIA_K8T800" class="mw-redirect" title="VIA K8T800">K8T800</a> chipset for the <a href="/wiki/Athlon_64" title="Athlon 64">Athlon 64</a> was popular. </p><p>From 2004 to 2012, VIA continued the development of its <a href="/wiki/VIA_C3" title="VIA C3">VIA C3</a> and <a href="/wiki/VIA_C7" title="VIA C7">VIA C7</a> as well as other x86 and x86-64 compatible processors, targeting small, light, low power applications, a market space in which VIA continues to be successful. For example, in January 2008, VIA unveiled the <a href="/wiki/VIA_Nano" title="VIA Nano">VIA Nano</a>, an 11 mm × 11 mm footprint VM-enabled <a href="/wiki/X86-64" title="X86-64">x86-64</a> processor, which debuted in May 2008, for <a href="/wiki/Ultra-mobile_PC" title="Ultra-mobile PC">ultra-mobile PCs</a>. By 2013 with its <a href="/wiki/Zhaoxin" title="Zhaoxin">Zhaoxin</a> joint-venture, VIA continued to create x86-64 compatible CPU designs derived from their 1999 purchase of Centaur Technologies and integrated-graphics systems, owing to VIA's earlier relationship and eventual 2001 purchase of S3 Graphics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_issues">Legal issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VIA_Technologies&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legal issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the basis of the <a href="/wiki/Integrated_Device_Technology" title="Integrated Device Technology">Integrated Device Technology</a> <a href="/wiki/Centaur_Technology" title="Centaur Technology">Centaur Technology</a> acquisition,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VIA appeared to have come into possession of at least three patents, which covered key aspects of processor technology used by Intel. On the basis of the negotiating leverage these patents offered, in 2003 VIA arrived at an agreement with Intel that allowed for a ten-year patent cross license, enabling VIA to continue to design and manufacture x86 compatible CPUs. 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