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Asustek and Gigabyte "joint venture" rumours.
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Wednesday, 9-August-2006 13:34:18 (GMT +10) - by Sciby
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Well, it seems to be the time for companies working together, with AMD swallowing ATi, and now Asustek and Gigabyte apparently holding hands in what they're calling a "joint venture", to collaborate on hardware together which will be released under the Gigabyte branding.
I've put "rumours" in the title of this news post, because I cannot find any hard evidence of this collaboration, aside from a few news sources. There are no announcements regarding the venture on Asus' website, nor on Gigabyte's so is it corporate vapourware, so to speak?
Xbit Labs (thanks to gto_pontiac for the link) announce it as "joint-venture that will produce hardware under Gigabyte brand-name" and confirm that there's no offical announcement anywhere, yet Asian news agencies have alledged details of the agreement.
However, at Digitimes (and thanks to Katatonic for that link), they have far more specific details, but only on Monday they were saying "Both Asustek and Gigabyte refuted the merger rumors at the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on August 4. To date, there is no plan about a merger that involves Asustek and Gigabyte, the two motherboard makers clarified in their respective filings with the TSE."
So... er... what's going on? Are they being pedantic about the meaning of "merge" and Asustek will keep its corporate identity and this is all just a superhappyfun side project? Where are the offical announcements from the two companies?
Until I see offical corporate announcements from either company, I'm going to call shenanigans. Remember kids, news on the Internet is only as good as the paper it's written on. :)
If you have any concrete information on this subject, send it to news@overclockers.com.au so we can work out just what the hell is going on.
Edit: Thanks to Bonju, this appears to be an offical announcement from Asus, but being in Mandarin (and being that I don't speak Mandarin), it's a bit hard to say for sure... but it does have "51%" in it, so... maybe it's true?
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