Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
(Chinese: 技嘉科技股份有限公司; pinyin: Jìjiā Kējì Gŭfèn Yŏuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer hardware products best known for its motherboards. The company is publicly held and traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
Company:
Established in 1986, its major customers include custom boutique PC manufacturers such as Alienware and Falcon Northwest. The chairman of the company is Yeh Pei-Cheng. Gigabyte is considered a Tier 1 motherboard manufacturer (based on units sold) along with Micro-Star International (MSI),Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Asus. They shipped approximately 19 million motherboards in 2008 (16 million of them branded)
Products:
In addition to the design and manufacture of motherboards hosting AMD and Intel processors, the company also makes graphics cards built around the ATI Technologies and NVIDIA GPUs, such as the GeForce GTX480 and Radeon HD 5770.
Secondary lines in the company's product portfolio include complete PCs, laptops, optical disc drives, liquid crystal display (LCD), monitors,keyboards, mice, cooling components, mobile phones (GSmart) and high end mobile phone products (personal digital assistant (PDA) phone, TV phone etc.), networking equipment, power supplies, and a line of computer cases.
Gigabyte was the first company in the world to produce a software controlled power supply for desktop computers, the ODIN GT series.
April 2011: Gigabyte S1080 is a tablet computer powered by an Intel Atom processor. A dual dual booting version is expected, i.e., each time it starts it can run one of two operating systems: Android, or Windows 7 Home Premium