Gigabyte Technology

Gigabyte Technology

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Company type	Hardware Manufacturer
Industry	Computer industry
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Taipei , Taiwan
Key people	Yeh Pei-Cheng Xiaolie Huang (Director) Meizhen Wang (Manager) Chengxia Yan (General Manager)
Products	Motherboards Graphics Cards Notebooks PDAs
Revenue	US$ 1,269 million (NT$ 39.8 billion @ 31.34) up to Q3 2008
Number of employees	7070 employees
Website	www.gigabyte.com.tw

GIGABYTE Technology (Chinese: 技嘉科技股份有限公司) 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 (2376.TW).

Company

Established in 1986, its major customers include custom boutique PC manufacturers such as Alienware and Falcon Northwest. Google recently revealed they use GIGABYTE motherboards in the custom servers. The chairman of the company is Yeh Pei-Cheng. GIGABYTE is considered a Tier 1 motherboard manufacturer (based on units sold) along with MSI, ECS and Asustek. They shipped approxmately 19 million motherboards in 2008 (16 million of them branded).

Vision

Become one of the IT Industry leaders.

Mission

Everyday, GIGABYTE aims to "Upgrade Your Life" by knitting a global network to effectively honor its commitment to world wide customers. What’s more important, GIGABYTE wishes all users to see and feel the brand through its products and all the touch points from GIGABYTE to the hands of all users.

Motherboard

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At least 1 of 10 PCs uses GIGABYTE motherboard everywhere in the world.

Ultra Durable 3™

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GIGABYTE leads the industry with the highest quality and most innovative motherboard design, the latest Ultra Durable 3™ technology featuring double the amount of copper for the Power and Ground layers of the PCB. A 2oz Copper layer design also provides improved signal quality and lower EMI (Electromagnetic Interference), providing better system stability and allowing for greater margins for overclocking. GIGABYTE ensures to deliver motherboard with highest quality and leading design.

GIGABYTE Booktop M1022

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GIGABYTE Booktop M1022 is equipped with a 10.1-inch LED backlight screen and the docking station exclusively from GIGABYTE. By attaching the M1022 to this docking station which is also a battery charger, users can turn the M1022 into a desktop and at the same time recharge the battery of the Booktop. Looking like a book that does not occupy much space with its slim appearance, the M1022 is a fashionable home accessory equipped with a 92% full-scale keyboard with 17.5 mm key pitch to deliver a comfortable typing experience.

GIGABYTE M912

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On June 2008, GIGABYTE launched the market 1st touchable and swivel screen mobile pc, M912. With the innovative technology and minimalistic design for truly carefree mobile lifestyles for professional or personal users with different budgets, M912 features the touch screen came with stylus and 180 degree swivel design to transform into a Tablet PC. M912 is the combination of notebook and table PCs that delivers multiple modes for convenience use and leads the industry to follow.

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 GTX280 and Radeon HD 4870.

Secondary lines in the company's product portfolio include complete PCs, laptops, optical drives, LCD monitors, keyboards, mice, cooling components, mobile phones and high end mobile phone products (PDA phone, TV phone etc.), networking equipment, power supplies, and a line of barebone mid and full sized ATX computer cases.

Motherboard naming conventions

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 abbrevations.

Available 1st segment abbrevations:If "M" appears behide the chipset code, it is a mATX board.

Available 2nd segment abbrevations:

• E - (Dynamic Energy Saver) - Energy saving features
• T - Only DDR3 SDRAM support
• C - Both DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM support
• No T or C abbreviations mean that the motherboard only has DDR2 SDRAM support.

Available 3rd segment abbrevations:

• D (Durability) - Indicates that the motherboard uses only solid state capacitors.
• UD (Ultra Durable 3) - Introduces 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers.
• S2 (Smart, Safe) - Various features such as Q-Flash BIOS etc.
• S3 (Smart, Speed, Safe) - Same as above, but includes overclocking features.
• S4 (Silent Pipe, Smart, Speed, Safe) - Same as above, but uses heat pipe cooling.
• S5 (CrossFire, Silent Pipe, Smart, Speed, Safe) - Same as above, but with CrossFire support.
• Q6 (Quad BIOS, Quad Cooling, Quad E-SATA2, Quad Triple Phase, Quad-Core Optimized, Quad DDR2 Slots) - Indicates quad-core optimiziation.

Available 4th segment abbrevations:

• R - 2 extra SATAII ports and possibly RAID support. No FireWire ports. No ATI CrossFire support. (i.e GA-P35-DS3R)
• G - Solid capacitors for the CPU Volt Regulator Module.
• H - HDMI port.
• L - Probably "Lite". Less SATAII ports. No RAID support. No FireWire ports. No ATI CrossFire support. Heatsink cooling. (i.e GA-P35-DS3L)
• P - Silent Pipe, RAID, Extra PCI Express slots, extra SATAII ports. (i.e GA-EP45-DS3P)

External links

• Official Site