Gigabyte September revenues up on year, but mobo shipments will drop in 4Q09

Oct 9, 17:20

Gigabyte Technology has reported revenues of NT$4.7 billion (US$146.42 million) for September, up 17.9% on month and 4% on year, bringing its revenues for the first nine months of...

Graphics card market shows signs of stability in 2Q09, says Jon Peddie Research

Aug 28, 17:06

Jon Peddie Research has reported that the market for graphics add-in boards (AIBs) demonstrated some much-needed firmness in the second quarter of 2009, adding more evidence that...

Gigabyte quits board of GeCube, says paper

Newswatch - Jul 20, 16:44

Gigabyte Technology has recently released its 61.5% stake in GeCube to officially withdraw from it board of directors, according to a Chinese-language Apply Daily report.

Graphics take a hit in 2009 and to come back in 2010, says Jon Peddie Research

Jul 20, 10:19

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has announced estimated global graphics chip shipments for 2009 will see the worst ever on-year drop in shipments. The decrease in shipments for 2009 will...

Pegatron sees decreased sales in April

May 12, 16:45

Pegatron Technology shipped 2.12 million motherboards, 850,000-900,000 notebook PCs (not including Eee PCs) and 436,000 graphics cards in April, according to the company. Pegatron...

AMD tightens organization

May 7, 16:55

AMD has announced a new operating model that centers the organization on four equally critical functions: products, technology, marketing and customers.

AMD launches a new 40nm GPU and a dual-core Athlon Black Edition CPU

Apr 29, 17:04

AMD has launched the ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor that harnesses a 40nm manufacturing process for the desktop PC market, delivering performance and energy efficiency at anticipated...

Sapphire to enter Taiwan graphics card market

Apr 16, 14:28

One of the global top-three graphics card makers, Hong Kong-based PC Partner, will enter the Taiwan graphics card market in April with its Sapphire brand, according to sources at...

Asustek, Gigabyte and MSI see revenues decline on year in March

Apr 10, 15:56

First-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) all saw revenues increase on-month, but decline on-year in March, according...

AMD to use Samsung memory to fill Qimonda supply gap, says HKEPC

Newswatch - Apr 8, 17:15

AMD is planning to adopt Samsung Electronics' GDDR5 memory to fill in the supply gap caused by Qimonda's bankruptcy in April, according to a Chinese-language HKEPC report...

CeBIT 2009: Nvidia introduces four new GPUs for notebooks

Mar 3, 14:57

Nvidia has introduced four new mobile GPUs - GeForce GTX 280M and 260M GPUs for enthusiast notebooks and GeForce GTS 160M and 150M GPUs for high-performance notebooks.

GPU shipments dive in 4Q08, says JPR

Feb 2, 11:31

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the fourth calendar quarter of 2008.

Asustek backed-up inventory worth NT$40 billion; unlikely to be profitable in 1Q09

Jan 22, 14:24

Jerry Shen, president of Asustek Computer disclosed that the company's current stockpiled inventory is worth NT$40 billion (US$1.19 billion).

First-tier motherboard makers see on-year drop in December revenues

Jan 12, 17:07

Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$16.1 billion (US$484.74 million) for December 2008, NT$67.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008, and NT$266.9 billion...

A top-four motherboard maker will drop out of the market beyond three years, says MSI VP

Jan 9, 17:10

One of the top-four motherboard makers, Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Elite group Computer Systems (ECS) and Micro-Star International (MSI), will drop out of the market within...

Graphics card price-cuts effective in boosting sales, says paper

Newswatch - Dec 31, 11:59

With the economic decline having a positive impact on the online gaming market, graphics card makers have reduced their prices by 10-20% over the past three weeks and successfully...

Gigabyte discusses performance in 2008; to launch 3.5G netbooks next year

Nov 26, 13:58

Although Gigabyte Technology recently reduced its annual motherboard shipments goal from 20 million to 19 million units, shipments from the company's branded segment will still reach...

Nvidia to cut graphics card prices to counter AMD market share gains

Nov 14, 15:46

With AMD making gains in the discrete graphics card market – rising to around 40% in third-quarter 2008 according to a recent report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) – Nvidia...

Nvidia says no truth to rumors it plans to cut off GPU supply to second-tier makers

Oct 23, 12:09

With rumors circulating recently that Nvidia is planning to cut off supply of graphics processing units (GPU) to second-tier makers, Nvidia has officially refuted the rumor saying...

AMD announces ATI Radeon HD 4550 and 4350 graphics cards

Sep 30, 15:53

AMD has announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest additions to its ATI Radeon HD 4000-series graphics line up. Both cards...

Upgraded Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 GPU could cause overstock problems

Sep 15, 12:12

To defend against AMD's high-end ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPU, Nvidia has recently launched an upgraded version of its GeForce GTX 260, however sources at graphics card makers are worried...

AMD aims to grab 50% share of discrete graphics card market by the end of 2008

Aug 15, 14:25

With AMD officially announcing its ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 GPU, the company has noted that its ATI Radeon HD 4800-series has boosted the company's discrete graphics card market share...

Channel vendors demand card makers recall faulty Nvidia products

Jul 25, 17:03

Due to Nvidia not clearly explaining the details of the faults reported in its notebook GPUs, some channel vendors have demanded graphics card makers issue a recall for desktop-based...

AMD expected to grab 40% discrete graphics card market share in 3Q08

Jun 27, 14:24

With AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards successfully cutting into the US$200-300 mainstream market forcing Nvidia to cut the price of its previous generation GeForce 9800...