Wednesday, March 4th 2009
abit Closes Down Forever
According to the latest news on the web, the well known motherboard manufacturer abit, once a leading provider of high-performance motherboards and video cards, will close doors forever in the month to come. Now we all know that the company halted the production of its motherboards, but it was never meant to close doors forever. Instead, abit was to move into the consumer electronics market with products like digital picture frames and mobile internet devices. Yes, but no one thought of the world economic crisis. HEXUS.net reports that abit's parent company USI has now decided to pull abit out of the channel market entirely. abit's marketing director Thore Welling commented:
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HEXUS.net
After 20 years in the market the abit brand now bids farewell, so it's also time for me now to lock the doors of the marketing department. That's it for good now.If this information confirms, the whole liquidation of abit should be finished in around a month.
51 Comments on abit Closes Down Forever
On a more serious note, I hope this news doesn't have a negative effect on the market in that other small mobo mfgs like DFI or Foxconn, etc will go under.
They're Taiwanese and so am I!LOL
Hope they don't suffer huge loses...
Abit was my favorite mobo company for a while there.
Have a still kicking NF7-S working.
Also have a IB9, but it kinda let me down in a couple ways, but im sure its my fault + the P965 chipset.
RIP ABIT...
R.I.P
oh well, my plans of a seperate folding machine didn't go so well with that thing's agp slot.
over saturation to the max
if motherboards have good features and a competitive price ill buy it dosnt matter what brand as long as its is the above and has decent support
to many types of graphics card also, i think we could eliminate about 40% of cards, now another re branding the gtx255 a gtx 250 with more shaders LOL
or a new dvd drive that has exactly the same specs as every other dvd drive
rip abit you gave it a good go but f'k up in the end
bye bye Abit.
The layout was different to every other company (the pciex1 was switched with the pciex16) so allowed for a large gpu cooler and PCI soundcard. Wasn't worth the trouble :shadedshu
But yet again, another company gone...wonder who's next...
anyway, Rest In Peace Universal Abit :cry: