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Universal abit Exits Motherboard Market – Confirmed @ Hexus |
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Written by Dragana Dimitrijevic
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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Universal abit will stop producing of all motherboards at the end of 2008 – exclusively confirms Hexus.channel. This Taiwanese company will continue to deliver motherboards with three years warranty.
Here is quote written by Scott Bicheno at hexus.net:
“HEXUS.channel has confirmed this as fact from sources close to South East Asian distributors, all of which will be notified by their abit sales contacts from today onwards.
Apparently abit will continue to deliver mainboards until the end of the year and will honour RMAs and warranties for three years subsequently.
Rumours of abit's demise from mainboards were circulating widely last May, prompting an emphatic denial from abit. Our sources tell us that abit still intended to continue with mainboards at the time and that this decision was only made in the last couple of weeks.
This will mark a wholesale shift towards specialising in consumer electronics devices, such as the Funfab photo-frame-stroke-printer, which we spotted at this year's Computex. We understand that a MID (mobile internet device) is also planned for early next year as well as other photo related gadgetry.
Taiwanese manufacturer Universal Scientific International (USI) acquired abit in May of 2006 and it's now officially called Universal abit. There have been reports of defections and departures from the abit mainboard division ever since then, so there is a certain feeling of inevitability about this news…” |
More on this subject at Hexus .
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