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home > news > exclusive: abit closing its doors on december 31st Exclusive: ABIT closing its doors on December 31st Published: December 17, 2008, 1:16 pm Author: Cameron Wilmot About the time when TweakTown started pumping out technology content, ABIT produced the best ...
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Shutters Down for Abit on December 31
techPowerUp! —
... towards its slow and painful end. Revived by the United Scientific Industrial (USI) in 2006, the company showed some resurgence, it also planned to diversify into peripherals such as digital photo frames, speakers, etc., alongside its desktop motherboards lineup, but evidently it didn't help the company. Post Dec. 31, the company will continue to honour its warranty and RMA commitments for up to three years according to an earlier report. Farewell Abit!
Source: TweakTown
RIP abit, Dec. 31st 2008
bit-tech.net News Feed —
... While we wished abit all the best at the time, part of us died inside having seen what the once and arguably "first" enthusiast brand had been reduced to. What let abit down? TweakTown comments: "Its management were excused and charged for bad financial practices, key staff walked away from the company, engineers jumped ship – ABIT, as we knew it, would never to be the same as it once were." Those key staff went to other companies and helped create new enthusiast brands that we know and love today. Since USI revived the brand in 2006 and basically didn't have the ...
Is Abit finally throwing in the towel?
The Tech Report: News —
... 10:53 AM on December 19, 2008 Earlier this week, several readers pointed us to a TweakTown report that says Abit is about to close down . The site claims Abit has focused its efforts on ...
Abit to close at the end of the year?
Hardware 2.0 —
... I’m hearing rumors that tech vendor Abit will closing come the end of the year as parent company Universal Scientific Industrial restructures. The source of the story seems to be TweakTown : Computer enthusiasts join me in bidding farewell to the once mighty strong ABIT - they are going to close the company once and for all on December 31st. ...
Rumor: End of an Era, Abit to Bid Adieu Next Week
Maximum PC —
Most seasoned enthusiasts have at least one fond memory of an Abit motherboard that overclocked like nobody's business, a trait which propelled the company into legendary status. But just as Abit had risen to the top, the company fell even quicker following questionable management decisions, and the Abit brand name was sold to Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) two years ago. Abit's presence has never been the same, and after December 31st, it will no longer exist, says TweakTown . News and review site TweakTown appears to have intimate knowledge that USI will shut down Abit ...
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