ABIT (often also "„ABit "“or "„Abit "“written) is in Taiwan of a resident manufacturer of computer components and since the late 1980ern in the core business lay in the Main board section, whereby the Overclocking market one aimed at. But 2005 came ABIT into serious financial difficulties and in such a way took place an assumption of the Main board department through universal Scientific Industrial CO., Ltd. (USI).

History

ABIT was created 1989 and developed starting from 1991 to at the fastest increasing Main board manufacturer with more than 10.000.000 US$ at conversion. In the year 2000 deeply felt ABIT its IPO to the TAIEX.Es was maintained that the number of sold motherboards between 2000 and 2001 had doubled itself. In order to be able to hold with their "„good " sales figures step, ABIT opened one of the most modern works in Suzhou (China) and pulled into its new master seat in Neihu, Taipei.

But already very soon this dream disintegrated: on 31 December 2005 the Taiwan gradated stick Exchange ABITs share due to doubtful practices during record keeping back. Investigations revealed that the majority of in and export trades over seven companies, which were, were led all under the same address and everyone of these companies only 2 HK$ at capital had. It was simple to blow up the announced number of sold Main boards. The media in Hong Kong reported likewise that against the management because of suppression by firm funds one determined.

When ABIT was scarce in June 2005 with cash, "„Wan shark Industries were gotten "“as an investor in the boat. - See http://www.anandtech.com

Finally DigiTimes reported on 28 December 2005 that ABIT struggled still with financial problems. The net value fell from 325 million US$ (November 2004) on 51 million US$ (October 2005). "„The Securities and Futures of investor Protection center OF Taiwan "“(too German about "„taiwanesisches center to the protection of effects and option dealing investors "“) continued its investigations concerning the financial statements, since they exhibited irregularities.

On 25 January 2006 ABIT explained that USI intends the Main board business as well as announced the mark to buy and a special shareholder meeting, in order to speak about the sales of ABITs business building in Neihu. Likewise the change of the company name, the arrangement OF the was discussed company's assets, and the renouncement of the managing directors of restrictions, those not the competition betreffen.USI sold his own Imobilie in Taipei at Deutsche Bank, in order to procure money for its commitments.

After the assumption of the Main board section by USI ABIT changed over to the selling from components and network products. The work in Suzhou, China, is used only in order to offer some services for the order completion by motherboards.

Technical problems

Unfortunately ABIT was one of the first victims "„of the condenser Plaques in such a way specified "“, sees condenser (row resistance). Often also the designation is used "„Bloated Capacitors "“, "„bath Capacitors "“or briefly "„bath Caps "“.

Approximately in the year 2000 ABIT bought some taiwanesische condensers, which led to the fact that the Main boards failed promptly and is up to now the only manufacturer, that admitted and possibly recalled the use of condensers of poor condition, in order to repair it. - See http://www.badcaps.net

Nowadays ABIT uses however only high-quality condensers from Japan, particularly from Rubycon.

A list of good and bad condenser manufacturers gives it in the English Wikipedia, sees "„Capacitor plague, fire to and specs "“

Technical successes

ABIT had and/or has a good reputation among computer lovers, since the motherboards offer support for Overclocking. Into the late 1990ern "„the soft menu became "“- feature presents. It was one of the first "„Jumper free "“CCU configuration means, which made via bio its positions the permitted and so "„the Jumper "“redundant for over clocks.

As first manufacturers at all ABIT introduces the 133MHz FSB clock for Intel the BX-Chipsatz with the appropriate name "„AB-BX133 "“. Likewise ABIT on its BP6-Mainboard reached SMP functionality for of Intel Celeron CCU (code name "„Mendocino "“). That is a success, because Intel had blocked SMP functionality in the Celeron chip.

In the year 2004 "„the OTES was introduced "“- cooling system. This, on Heatpipe technology which is based cooling system is to be created for it meant, the heat from the chip set and/or the potential transformers of the rear I/O screen from the housing.

Selling partner

One can experience ABITs main selling partners in the individual countries here:

Sources

• S. Chen, S. Shen. "“Abit CUTs debts by selling properties, but trouble remains"”, DigiTimes.com, 28 December 2005.
• E. Wang. "“Abit reaches tentative agreement with creditor bank"”, DigiTimes.com, 21 January 2005.
• E. Wang. "“Abit stick downgraded tons requiring full delivery"”, DigiTimes.com, 15 December 2004.
• ABIT press department, "“Abit announced A more merger with universal Scientific Industrial CO., Ltd. (USI). "”, Abit.com .tw, 25 January 2006.

Related links

• Official Website of ABIT
• Official Website of USI

• ABIT support forums
• ABIT newsgroup

• Original entry to ABIT in the English Wikipedia

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