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Motherboard merger: Gigatek? Asusbyte?

Motherboard merger: Gigatek? Asusbyte?

Matt Elliott Senior Editor
Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and San Francisco and now lives in New Hampshire. When he's not writing about laptops, Matt likes to play and watch sports. He loves to play tennis and hates the number of streaming services he has to subscribe to in order to watch the various sports he wants to watch.
Expertise Laptops, desktops, all-in-one PCs, streaming devices, streaming platforms
Matt Elliott
that Asustek and Gigabyte have agreed to a merger, which will allow the combined company to battle larger vendors such as ECS and Foxconn for precious market share. They've yet to decide on a name, but the new company will begin operations on January 1, 2007. Asustek will hold a 51 percent stake with Gigabyte holding the other 49 percent. Word is this may not be the last merger in the increasingly competitive motherboard market, with MSI perhaps looking for a suitor.