GIGABYTE Responds to Competitor Energy Saving Technology Claims

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“Taipei, Taiwan, May 21, 2008 – GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading
manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards would like to respond
to recent statements by our competitor alleging GIGABYTE has made false
claims against them. These statements were made in response to a report
GIGABYTE detailed for the media which compared GIGABYTE’s 4-Gear and
6-Gear Dynamic Energy Saver technology to our competitor’s non-phase
change and 2-Gear Phase changing energy saving technology. In addition,
direct comparisons and testing results were reported between the
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L motherboard and our competitor’s P5K-SE EPU.

While GIGABYTE would like to express regret over any confusion this
situation may have caused our competitor’s customers, we do stand by
our statements and testing report 100%, and eagerly await our
competitor to clarify the issues we raised in order to avoid any
further confusion.

In 2006, GIGABYTE was the first motherboard manufacturer to implement a
higher quality, All-Solid capacitor design. In 2007, GIGABYTE further
raised the bar with their Ultra Durable 2 design, which featured the
highest quality components for the most durable, stable and lowest
temperature platform. In addition to using All-Solid capacitors,
GIGABYTE was the first manufacturer to utilize more advanced components
including Lower RDS(on) MOSFETs and Ferrite Core Chokes. While these
more expensive components raised production costs, GIGABYTE felt the
improved energy efficiency and lower operation temperatures brought
about a large improvement in overall performance for our customers.

In 2008, GIGABYTE again set a new standard with the introduction of
their Dynamic Energy Saver (DES) technology, the world’s first energy
saving technology motherboards to feature up to 6 gears of power phase
switching. Featuring a combination of hardware and software design, DES
has proven to be an industry breakthrough and has received wide acclaim
from media and end users alike by enhancing power efficiency up to 20%
and providing CPU power savings up to 70%.

GIGABYTE promises to continue providing higher quality, better spec and
greater performance products to our customers and will continue to
develop new technologies to provide the safest, fastest, quietest, most
convenient, most secure and most energy efficient computing experience
possible. While other motherboard manufacturers have followed
GIGABYTE’s lead by introducing higher quality components on their
products as well, GIGABYTE hopes this trend continues, as higher
quality products not only strengthen the motherboard industry as a
whole, but provides the best win-win situation for end users.”