| Type | Hardware manufacturer |
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| Industry | Computer industry |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Taipei,, Taiwan |
| Key people | Pei-Chen Yeh (Chairman) Ming-Hsiung Liu (CEO) |
| Products | Motherboards Graphics Cards Notebooks PDAs PC peripherals |
| Revenue | US$ 2.5 billion ?(2010) |
| Website | www.gigabyte.com |
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| Chinese | 技嘉科技 | ||||||
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Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 技嘉科技股份有限公司; pinyin: Jìjiā Kējì Gŭfèn Yŏuxiàn Gōngsī, lit. High Skill Technology Corporation) 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 (TWSE: 2376).
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Established in 1986, its major customers include custom boutique PC manufacturers such as Alienware and Falcon Northwest. Mr. Yeh Pei-Cheng founded GigaByte Technology Co. Ltd. in 1986 and has been its Chairman since 1986.[1] Gigabyte is considered a Tier 1 motherboard manufacturer (based on units sold) along with Micro-Star International (MSI), Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Asus.
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 desktop computer, laptops, server motherboards, server racks, 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 booting version is expected, i.e., each time it starts it can run one of two operating systems: Android, or Windows 7 Home Premium.[2]
Gigabyte use a special system for naming their motherboards. For example the GA-P35-DS3R. The first segment, GA, simply denotes that it's manufactured by Gigabyte. The second segment indicates what chipset it is using, in this case Intel's P35. The third part shows what features the motherboard has. This segment mostly contains a number of abbreviations. General formula: GA-[Power saving method+Chipset name+form factor+Specific Feature]-[main features+minor Feature]
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(update: L” / “C” / “E” / “G” means minor/customized spec change version)