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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fury on August 08, 2006, 01:42:03 pm

Title: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Fury on August 08, 2006, 01:42:03 pm
Source: DailyTech (http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3706)
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Turambar on August 08, 2006, 01:50:25 pm
:(  less companies makes less competition, which makes higher prices
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Descenterace on August 09, 2006, 12:38:10 am
I predict that in ten years there'll be about four major companies in the field of computer hardware. Ten years after that, there'll only be two or three.

I doubt there'll ever be a monopoly in that field, though. ATI and nVidia have been neck-and-neck for years.
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Turambar on August 09, 2006, 12:41:27 am
that neck-and-neck has brought us some really nice graphics cards.  now AMD had to throw the whole thing off balance by buying ATI
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Apathy on August 09, 2006, 01:08:51 am
They're both very good motherboard companies, hopefully they'll keep it up.
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Kosh on August 09, 2006, 03:54:53 am
Maybe Asus's support will improve now.
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Mars on August 09, 2006, 04:08:17 am
Somhow I doubt that  :doubt:

Did anyone notice how the total employee count of the AMD ATI merger was less than AMD's employee count according to wikipedia?
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: Descenterace on August 10, 2006, 12:15:13 am
Maybe Asus's support will improve now.

Maybe Asus's boards will improve now. Along with their firmware and drivers.
Title: Re: Asus and Gigabyte merge
Post by: CmdKewin on August 10, 2006, 02:12:33 am
Did you actually read the article?
A "Joint Venture" is NOT a merge... Gigabyte will maintain 51% of the shares. they still will have control of the company. So we are still going to see branded names around, the only difference is that the motherboards are going to be manufactured at the same location. No big deal.