While many in the chip making and consumer electronics business are contracting, VIA’s expanding. Today, the company has just announced its entry into the design manufacturing service business, which will enable it to provide flexible system hardware solutions, starting with the NSD7200 home storage and media server pictured below.Now, VIA’s definitely had time to dabble in small form factor, embedded and IPC markets, so branching out into this market shouldn’t take you completely by surprise. VIA’s goal here