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/images/news/2006-08/07_08_2006_notd_asus_gbt.jpg Asustek and Gigabyte Cancel Joint-Venture Efforts.

Asus and Gigabyte Cease Gigabyte United Proceedings

[03/27/2007 11:49 AM]
by Anton Shilov
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Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, two leading suppliers of computer hardware from Taiwan, have announced cancellation of the joint-venture between the two companies. It is believed that the companies decided to shelve the joint venture that would control over the largest part of the global mainboard market after emergence of internal opposition and outside pressure.

In August, 2006, Asus and Gigabyte agreed to form a joint-venture, which would produce mainboards and graphics cards under Gigabyte brand-name. Under the terms of the agreement, Gigabyte itself should cease production of mainboards and graphics cards, whereas Asus would continue to ship its products to the market. Gigabyte would control 51% of the newly-formed Gigabyte United company, while Asustek would have 49% stake in the joint-venture.

However, Asustek reportedly delayed to remit approximately NT$4 billion ($241.8 million, €181.2 million) of investments into the company that started to operate on the 1st of January, 2007. In addition to Asustek’s strange business behaviour, the new joint-venture also faced some other problems, which included internal opposition, pressure from clients who wanted to ensure consistent new products development by Gigabyte and possible violation of European antitrust laws.

As a result of the break up between the two companies, Gigabyte United will become a fully-owned subsidiary of Gigabyte Technology, which emphasized during a press conference that the computer hardware giant has no plans to sell of its mainboard/graphics cards division or find another partner for this business unit, reports China Economic News Service. Gigabyte earlier admitted that it used to be a target for acquisition by Foxconn Group, one of the world’s largest producer of electronics.

Competition in the markets of mainboards, graphics cards and other equipment of this kind is very fierce these days and establishing a joint venture which would control over lion’s share of the motherboards market might lessen price war between the players. But while there is a distinct trend towards merges between companies in those markets, channel players and other participants of the PC supply chain might not want to give Asus monopoly control over the market.

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4. Hello everyone!!
I know this isn't the subject but I have some intresting tidbits for you to enjoy with!!!

THE SPECS FOR THE UPCOMING nVIDIA GPUs
IS HERE!!!(provided to me by some unknown source...
I have some intresting information to youL:
nVIDIA is releasing their 8800 Ultra and 8950GX2 as well as other GPUs in the 8300,8400 and 8600 series on the 17 of April...prices and specs are as follows :

8950 GX2 (192 Stream Processors) 1024MB GDDR4 at 649 USD
8950 GX2 will be 50% faster than a 8800GTX
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8800 Ultra (128 Stream Prcessors at 1.80GHz)
64 TF/32 TA
Core : 650MHz/
768MB GDDR4 at 2.2GHz /105.6 GB/s memory Bandwidth
8800 Ultra will be 30% FASTER than a 8800GTX in real world apps & Video games
& optimizations to the core to allow higher clocks(remember 7800GTX 512 ??)
price for an 8800 Ultra : 549 USD
NO WATER COLLING FOR 8800 ULTRA!!
Cons: prices might be higher due to low supplies.(supplies will get better overtime & prices will go down)
price:549USD
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8600 GTS Spes & prices:(G84)
midrange GPU.
80nm 300 million transistors at TSMC
64 Stream Processors at 1.65GHz
32 TF/16 TA
Core Clock at 675MHz
Memory Clock at 2.0GHz (1ns)
128 bit Memory Bus /256MB-512MB GDDR4/32 GBs Bandwidth
price : 229USD for 512MB version and 199USD for 256MB version..
pros: 8800GTS is 50% faster than aRadeon X1950 XTX 512MB in real world apps & video games..
Cons : narrow memory bus
pros: amazing performance & best bang for the buck!!! (8600 GTS 3Dmark2006 score is
6500 points in 1280x1024 res on a stock X6800 Conroe CPU)
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8600 GT Specs:(G84)
same as 8600 GTS just with lower clocks
64 SPs at 1.30GHz
Core at 540MHz
128 bit memory bus
Memory Clock :1.40GHz using 1.4ns 256MB GDDR3 memories
performance for an 8600GT: same as an X1950 XTX & 7900GTX..
Cons : narrow memory bus
price : 169 USD

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8500 GT Specs (Cut down G84)
48 Stream Processors at 1.20GHz
Core : 470 MHz
256MB GDDR3
performance : same as an 7900/7950 GT
cons: no cons for its class...
price 129 USD
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8400 GS (Cut-down G84) Specs
48 SPs at 1.0 GHz
Core at 400MHz
Memory at 1.20GHz
256MB GDDR3
performance: in the range of 7900GS
Cons: No cons for its class
price: 99 USD
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8300 GS (c G86) Spes
32 Stream Processors at 1.0 GHz
Core : 400MHz
128/256MB GDDR3
performance : in the range of a 7600 GT
price: 79 USD
[Posted by: Erik Larsson | Date: 03/27/07 11:57:39 AM]
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Like WTF --- Nvidai specs ???

Asus is on a dowhill spiral of their own doing. I'm sure Gigabyte doesn't have any intentions of going down the toilet with Asus.
[Posted by: Bornfree | Date: 03/27/07 01:46:24 PM]
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