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Gigabyte Readying the CULV-Based Booktop M1305

The market for ultraportable computer systems continues to expand with new designs, every day, with Intel's CULV platform powering the majority of these systems. While it may seem challenging to come out with a new design for the same hardware platform, as compared with what the competition has to offer, Gigabyt...

4 November 2009
05:22 GMT

Seven USB 3.0/SATA 6.0Gbps P55 Motherboards from Gigabyte

Gigabyte, one of the world's leading vendors of desktop motherboards, has just announced an upcoming line of new solutions that will provide its customers with support for the much-anticipated USB 3.0 interface, as well as the SATA 6.0 Gbps. The news comes just after one of the company's USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb...

27 October 2009
08:07 GMT

Gigabyte Also Preps Its Own USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gbps Boards

Much in the same way as its fellow competitor, ASUS, Gigabyte is also preparing to launch an updated line of Intel-based motherboards, which will provide computer enthusiasts with support for the next-generation USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbps connectivity interfaces. Aside from the P55A-UD4, which has been leaked on the Int...

26 October 2009
05:14 GMT

Gigabyte S1024 Now Shipping in Hong Kong

Gigabyte's presence in the netbook market might not be as noticeable as some other Taiwanese vendors, like ASUS or Acer, but the company has a few decent products that are worth being taken into consideration. On that note, the company has recently started shipping the S1024 Myou netbook in Taiwan, a 10-inch mod...

17 August 2009
06:59 GMT

Gigabyte Updates Silently Intros the Touchnote T1028X

Gigabyte might not be the talk of the town when it comes to those small-sized, low-power, ultraportable computer systems that we all know as netbooks, but the Taiwanese company has some pretty nice alternatives to the extensive line of ASUS Eee PCs or Acer's latest Aspire One systems. Earlier this year, at CeBIT...

10 August 2009
05:24 GMT

Two Gigabyte P55 Motherboards Get an Early Look

Although Intel is yet to officially take the wraps off its much anticipated P55 mainstream platform, it appears that several motherboard makers have already begun seeding some of their early designs to a couple of lucky reviewers. These motherboards are built around Intel's next-generation chipset, featuring sup...

15 July 2009
06:40 GMT

Gigabyte GSmart S1200 at Computex, Comes in June

The Mio Explora K75 GPS phone was only one of the Windows Mobile-powered devices that were present on the floor of Computex 2009 show in Taiwan. Manufacturers like Acer, Asus or Gigabyte also showcased their products in the area, and one of the WinMo phones that were spotted and caught on camera was the Gigabyte GSma...

5 June 2009
03:14 GMT

Gigabyte, ECS and Flextronics Intro White-Box Notebooks

In an effort to accelerate the adoption of the ultra-thin and ultraportable laptops, Intel and two Taiwan-based motherboard and notebook makers have recently launched a number of white-box notebooks. According to available details, the Intel Montevina-based notebooks have been designed for regional brand vendors arou...

30 April 2009
06:49 GMT

Gigabyte Launches Three Windows Mobile Handsets in India

Gigabyte is one computer component maker that seems determined to turn into a powerful name on the mobile phone market as well. After we saw the company unveiling two new Windows Mobile PDA phones, the GSmart MS820 and S1200, back at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, now we learn that it will release ...

24 April 2009
08:28 GMT

CeBIT 2009: Gigabyte Shows Off Its Gaming Peripherals

Gigabyte came to the CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover, Germany not only with its new P55 chipset-based GA-IBP motherboard, but also brought along a new series of peripheral products, including the GM-M8000 gaming mouse with 4000 dpi and the M6880 mouse that features high precision, as well as the GK-K6800, the GK-K7100, an...

6 March 2009
13:43 GMT

CeBIT 2009: Gigabyte Demoes Its P55 Chipset-Based Motherboard

Among the most interesting new products that have been showcased at the CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover, Germany in the past few days we were able to spot a nice series of motherboards from different players in the industry. Among them, Gigabyte was also present with its latest innovations in the area, and we had the chan...

6 March 2009
07:44 GMT

CeBIT 2009: Hands-On with Gigabyte Touch Note M1028

The CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover, Germany is considered the No. 1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends and innovations and Softpedia Team is present on the floor of the exposition to come with the latest news on the new products showcased there. One of the new devices that caught our attention is the Gigabyte Touc...

3 March 2009
11:01 GMT

CeBIT 2009: GeForce GTS 250-Based Cards on Display

NVIDIA has launched today yet another graphics card, GeForce GTS 250, which will come to the market as an upgrade to the 9800GTX+. The new graphics solution comes with 512MB and 1GB of memory and includes a 55nm GPU. Aver all, the new model seems to be the older card, only that it features a larger frame buffer and h...

3 March 2009
09:18 GMT

Gigabyte's Netbook Lineup for CeBIT 2009 Exposed

Early this week, Gigabyte has announced that it will be showcasing some new netbooks, part of the company's lineup of small-sized portable computer systems, at the CeBIT computer show in Hanover, Germany, which will start next week. It now appears that the very first photos of the new netbooks have already made ...

26 February 2009
04:26 GMT

Gigabyte to Unveil New 10-Inch Netbooks at CeBIT 2009

As some of you already know, early next month, on March 3, people in the IT industry will be waiting for the start of the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany. There, various companies are expected to debut a number of new products, giving us a pretty general idea of how the computer market will look like for the ongoing y...

23 February 2009
03:50 GMT

Gigabyte Unveils Its g-Smart MS820 and S1200

Gigabyte is yet another company to come to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year with brand new touchscreen devices. The g-Smart MS820 and S1200 are the two 3G-enabled PocketPCs the company has unveiled at the show, and they both sport Wi-Fi connectivity, Office Mobile and fancy UI plug-ins. The g-Smart M...

19 February 2009
04:58 GMT

Gigabyte Now Ready to Embrace AMD's Dragon

AMD has certainly raised the interest of those who attended this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada as the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker announced its latest Dragon platform, designed to combine the company's latest 45nm processors with its HD4000-series Radeon grap...

22 January 2009
06:52 GMT

Gigabyte Enables Intel Moblin Platform on New MID

Gigabyte is expected to debut a new ultra-portable computer device that will be built on Intel's open source Moblin platform, which is a project that the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker announced sometime last year. This platform has been designed to combine Intel's highly successful Atom processor...

1 December 2008
08:01 GMT

Notebook Market Growth, Reason for Mainboard Orders Declining

The portable computer system market has grown impressively over the last few years and this year, notebooks, along with netbooks, have managed to outsell desktop computer systems for the first time in history. This has been good for the laptop makers who have seen positive Q3 financial results. However, there's ...

13 November 2008
11:43 GMT

More Pictures of Gigabyte's X58-Extreme Motherboard Surface

There used to be a time when all we could find in our daily search on the Internet was more of those low power, small-sized, portable computer systems we now call netbooks. Well, it appears that there's new buzz on the Internet, as far as leaked information is concerned, namely that generated by the upcoming X58...

27 October 2008
13:11 GMT

Gigabyte X58 Extreme Mobo Almost Ready to Launch

After ASUS' upcoming high-end X58-enabled Rampage II Extreme motherboard has been spotted on the Internet quite a few times already, it looks like the time has come for one of Gigabyte's upcoming Core i7-supporting motherboards to show us what it is capable of. Obviously, you shouldn't expect anything...

10 October 2008
06:59 GMT

Gigabyte's M912X Runs Apple's OS X

 Modified netbooks running Apple's OS X have been seen before, so we could say it has become somewhat of a trend for users out there to install an OS X operating system on a portable computer system that is gaining more popularity with each day. However, this is the first time we see a netbook with touch-sc...

8 October 2008
10:58 GMT

Gigabyte Announces Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard Technology

Gigabyte, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has just announced its new, revolutionary Ultra Durable 3 technology, which is going to be enabled on several of the company's motherboards built on Intel's P43 and P45 chipsets. The underlying innovation of the new technology developed by...

23 September 2008
13:21 GMT

Core i7 and X58 Mobos Almost Ready to Launch

After pictures of Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Core i7 Extreme 965 processor have surfaced on the Internet, it appears that one of the yet to be announced X58 motherboards has also “posed” for the camera. More specifically, we’re talking about one of Gigabyte's soon to be unveiled mobos...

23 September 2008
13:01 GMT

Gigabyte to Deliver Passively-Cooled HD 4850

There is certainly a significant amount of buzz surrounding AMD's current generation of Radeon graphics cards. As it has been proven by several benchmarks, the company’s HD 4000 series can deliver an impressive performance level, but at a much more affordable price tag, which is why major graphics card man...

5 September 2008
10:57 GMT

Gigabyte's Core i7-Supporting Mobo at NVISION 08

As the release date for Intel's Core i7 processors is nearing, this can only mean one thing – namely that a number of motherboard manufacturers are also getting close to coming out with their own versions of Intel's x58-based platforms. As we already informed you, pictures of an MSI X58 board have alr...

26 August 2008
17:44 GMT

Leaked GeForce 9400GT Photos Surface

Despite the fact that NVIDIA is yet to officially unveil its GeForce 9400GT graphics card, leaked photos of it have already surfaced on the Internet, suggesting that the date when it drops is getting closer. Two of NVIDIA's graphics card partners, namely Gigabyte and Zotac, are ready to release their own models ...

26 August 2008
04:59 GMT

Gigabyte's Mini Tablet PC Gets Priced

In a market that is clearly oriented towards netbooks and the latest Intel Centrino 2 portable computer systems, Gigabyte is offering a tablet PC that is designed to be part of the low-power notebooks. The M192 was announced last month during the Computex show, held in Taipei, but has not seen yet its fair share of p...

21 July 2008
17:57 GMT

Gigabyte Unveils New 8.9" Tablet PC

Gigabyte has announced the launch of its new M912V, a small notebook that brings a new face to the Eee PC brand. The company is bringing to us is a 8.9" portable solution that packs together a considerable number of features. Gigabyte's M912V is a Tablet PC coming with a 180 degrees swiveling screen which can li...

8 July 2008
03:08 GMT

GIGABYTE Introduces Next-Generation Graphics Accelerators

GIGABYTE United Inc. has announced the launch of next generation graphics accelerators, the GV-N28-1GH-B and GV-N26-896H-B, aimed at delivering a superb, powerful and awesome gaming experience for users in Mumbai, India.The world leading motherboard and graphics card manufacturer has designed the new boards based on ...

26 June 2008
05:51 GMT

Gigabyte Adds 128MB of SidePort DDR3 Memory to 780G Mobo

Today's extreme technology enthusiasts (overclockers, avid gamers, etc.) are always looking for certain products that will allow them to take the system's specs and behavior to the extreme. For this reason, most manufacturers of various computer hardware components are constantly improving their devices, an...

25 June 2008
04:39 GMT

Gigabyte Makes the Extreme Motherboards Official

High-end P45 motherboard enthusiasts are now able to view the new Gigabyte Extreme releases on the producer's website. The motherboards appear in DDR3 and DDR3 models, with some new interesting chipset cooling features which allow overclocking enthusiasts enhance their experience. Both GA-EP45-EXTREME, the DDR2 ...

25 June 2008
04:02 GMT

Gigabyte's HD 4000-Series Cards Get Priced

Only two days left until AMD is expected to officially release their next-generation Radeon graphics cards, but even so, users can already place their orders for one of these cards. Besides the three manufacturers that have already rushed to make public the specification list for their Radeon HD 4000-series cards, on...

23 June 2008
05:12 GMT

Gigabyte Rolls out the 7" M704 UMPC

Gigabyte has recently launched on the market its new model from the Ultra Mobile PC series, the 7" M704. The new model features, besides the 7" touch screen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard which offers comfort and utility for various operations, including writing e-mails or word processing. The GIGABYTE M704 is powered by...

7 June 2008
06:56 GMT

Gigabyte Releases New 3 Megapixel Pocket PCs

Gigabyte, the Taiwanese company mainly known for producing computer motherboards, is also making Windows Mobile devices and it seems that it does a good job with them too.The company already released several models from its GSmart series (like MS800 and MW700) and now it has unveiled two new Pocket PCs, during the Co...

5 June 2008
04:59 GMT

Gigabyte Will Publicly Apologize to ASUSTek

Gigabyte has agreed to publicly apologize to competitor ASUSTek, in Taiwan newspapers on June the 1st. The news comes after ASUS took its case to Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission and initiated legal proceedings against Gigabyte.The public quarrel between the two Taiwanese hardware manufacturers was initiated by Gi...

30 May 2008
09:06 GMT

GSmart MS800 and MW700 Now in the UK

GSmart, mobile brand of the famous Gigabyte computer hardware manufacturer, announced the availability of two new Pocket PCs for the UK market: GSmart MS800 and GSmart MW700. These are the first devices to come with the new Smart Touch user interface that GSmart unveiled exactly one month ago. Built to be simple and ...

30 May 2008
04:38 GMT

Gigabyte Unleashes Its P45 Motherboards

Gigabyte, one of the leading manufacturers of computer hardware products and consumer electronics, recently announced that it would be joining the manufacturers that provide Intel P45-based motherboards. The company, which at the moment is in dispute with ASUSTek, has announced a new lineup of Intel P45 chipset based...

28 May 2008
11:17 GMT

Asustek Fires Back at Gigabyte in Motherboard War

Gigabyte's allegations regarding the fact that Asustek is artificially marketing its motherboards as more energy-efficient than similar products, have just been refuted by the Taiwanese Eee PC manufacturer. As previously presented, Gigabyte claims that Asustek's EPU technology is mostly related to software ...

16 May 2008
11:08 GMT

Gigabyte Claims that Asus Is Deceiving Its Customers on Motherboards

Gigabyte engineers claim that hardware manufacturer Asustek is willingly deceiving its customers with low-quality motherboards built with "technologies" that don't bring any improvements. The allegations were accompanied by slides demonstrating that Asustek lied about its motherboard offerings.According to a rep...

16 May 2008
06:29 GMT

Gigabyte's P45-DQ6 Motherboard Comes with Four-LAN Connectivity

While the vast majority of the mid-range / high-end motherboard manufacturers ship their offerings with dual-Gigabit Ethernet connections, Gigabyte ups the LAN ante with a four-LAN connector model. Most computer users usually connect to the Internet via a single network cable, but if you need more gear for a LAN part...

8 May 2008
05:47 GMT

Gigabyte Unveils New Smart Touch Mobile User Interface

Gigabyte, the famous hardware and electronics manufacturer, announced today its first touch-enabled mobile user interface that will be integrated into its GSmart series of Windows Mobile handsets. Named Smart Touch, the new UI seems very nice, having the advantage of being intuitive and simple, hence offering a hi...

30 April 2008
10:49 GMT

Gigabyte Boasts its 13.3-Inch Good-Looking UMPC

Hardware manufacturer Gigabyte might not be a reference name on the mobile computing market, yet it managed to score pretty high with its upcoming 13.3-inch sub-notebook. The company has previously released some UMPC devices built on top of VIA's low-voltage offerings, and other Atom-based models are on the hose...

25 April 2008
05:23 GMT

Gigabyte Enters High-End Gaming Market, Takes Over Razer

Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte is reported to enter the high-end PC accessory market later this month. The company aims at delivering professional keyboard and mice peripherals for the high-end gaming niche. According to some sources inside the company, Gigabyte will initially start a promotion campaign aimed at r...

18 March 2008
05:45 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Hands-On with Gigabyte's M528 Ultra-Mobile PC

The market success of Austek's Eee PC combined with the arrival of Intel's Atom chip keeps attracting companies' interest towards ultra-mobile computing. Gigabyte joined the mobile army with a pair of mobile devices: the VIA-based M700 ultra-mobile PC and the Centrino Atom-powered M528 Mobile Internet...

8 March 2008
04:12 GMT

New AMD 780G Chipset Motherboard from Gigabyte

Gigabyte is getting ready to show its latest AMD 780G motherboard to the world. GA-MA78GM-S2H, a micro-ATX board, supports the new AMD Phenom quad-core processors and features the latest AM2+ platform support. The multimedia enthusiasts are given an ideal choice not only by the use of the AMD Phenom CPU, but also by ...

4 March 2008
08:36 GMT

Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 Motherboard

The entire P35 motherboards series from Gigabyte has recently been revamped with the new EP35 series which contains motherboards that feature DES (Dynamic Energy Saver) hardware/software combination which can adjust the CPU power phase on the fly, maximizing the efficiency of the power subsystem. This means that it ...

26 February 2008
13:04 GMT

MWC 2008: Gigabyte Presents its New GSmart 3.5G Handset Series

GSmart, the mobile phone brand owned by Gigabyte Communications Inc., is showcasing at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (11 - 14 February), its first 3.5G Windows Mobile PDAs, as well as new mobile TV and GPS handsets. Additionally, GSmart will introduce an exclusive graphic user interface and innovative...

13 February 2008
05:43 GMT

Gigabyte Announced New GPS and Mobile TV Phones

Gigabyte, the Taiwanese producer best known for its motherboards, announced two new GPS PDA phones, GSmart MW700 and GSmart MS800, handsets that provide full business applications support as well as multimedia features. The phones will be first showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, between 11 and 14 Fe...

6 February 2008
03:49 GMT

The Gigabyte 3D Aurora: the Classic, Elegant Aluminum Case

Aluminum cases are extremely rare nowadays and you could hardly get one from specialized IT stores without having pre-ordered it. These cases were really popular with PC enthusiasts, but they kind of got obsolete and replaced with customized computer cases with side panels and glittering fan lights. At the moment, al...

29 January 2008
03:43 GMT


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