[2] Centaur Technologies Inc. was founded in April 1995 by Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Darius Gaskins, and Al Sato.

[citation needed] The VIA Nano design has been further refined and improved in chips produced by Zhaoxin (a VIA joint venture company).

[citation needed] In late 2019, Centaur announced the "World’s First High-Performance x86 SoC with Integrated AI Coprocessor", the CNS core.

[6] Centaur's chips historically have been much smaller than comparable x86 designs at their time, and they are thus cheaper to manufacture and consume less power [citation needed].

[citation needed] Centaur/VIA was among the first to design processors with hardware encryption, hash and random number acceleration in the form of VIA PadLock, starting with a 2004 VIA C7 release.