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| companies established in 1989 | |
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CORPORATE HISTORY ABIT was founded in 1989 . In 1991 , they had become the fastest growing motherboard manufacturer, exceeding US$ 10,000,000 in sales. In 2000 , ABIT underwent an IPO on the TAIEX Stock Exchange . To keep pace with their "good" sales figures, they opened up a state-of-the-art factory in Suzhou , China , and moved to new headquarters in Neihu , Taipei . The number of motherboards sold was claimed to have doubled between 2000 and 2001. On December 15 (year?), the Taiwan Stock Exchange downgraded ABIT's stock due to questionable Accounting practices. Investigations revealed that the majority of their import/export business was conducted through seven companies, all located at the same address and had a capital of only HK$ 2 each. This made it easy to inflate the reported number of motherboards sold. The Hong Kong media also reports that the management is being investigated for Embezzling funds from the company. Running short of money, in June reported that the company continued to struggle. The company's net worth has declined from US$325 million (in November 2004) to US$51 million (in October 2005). The Securities and Futures Investors Protection Center of Taiwan continues to investigate the company's financial statements, which show anomalies. On January 25, 2006 , ABIT announced that USI intended to purchase ABIT Computer's motherboard business and brand and announced a special shareholders meeting to discuss the sale of ABIT's Neihu building, changing ABIT's company name, the disposition of the company's assets, and the release of the directors from non-competition restrictions. ABIT sold its own office building in Taipei to Deutsche Bank in order to raise money to cut its debt. Following USI's acquisition of the motherboard business, the remaining divisions of ABIT switched to distributing components and networking products, while using its Suzhou , China plant only to offer some motherboard contract manufacturing services. The acquired motherboard business and the 'ABIT' brand name are now being used today by USI under the new brand name Universal abit. In the US, it is known as Universal abit USA Corporation. The old company, ABIT Computer Corporation (USA), is now dissolved and is no longer in existence. The new website URL is http://www.uabit.com/. For purposes of convenience to its customers, the old URL (abit-usa.com) has been retained and points to the new URL. TECHNICAL ISSUES ABIT was one of the early casualties of the . TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS ABIT had a reputation among PC enthusiasts for producing motherboards that support Overclocking . In the late 1990s, the company introduced their ''Softmenu'' feature, one of the first Jumperless CPU configuration systems that enable overclocking to be adjusted from the BIOS instead of fiddling with jumpers. Softmenu was later extended with the development of the ''μGuru'' chip. μGuru is a custom Microprocessor on Abit motherboards which, in conjunction with Abit software, gives the ability to modify overclocking settings in realtime while the OS is running. By providing instant feedback on the results of a particular overclock setting, μGuru greatly reduces the time required to discover optimal settings. μGuru also provides a special connector for a panel that can be installed in a 5¼" Bay which will display current speed and voltage settings. They were also one of the first motherboard manufacturers to enable Undervolting . ABIT was the first motherboard manufacturer to introduce 133MHz 2006 . This was an achievement because Intel had blocked SMP operation in the Celeron. In 2004, they introduced the OTES cooling system. This Heat Pipe based cooling system is intended to transfer heat from the chipset or the motherboard's Voltage Regulators and expel it out of the system through the rear I/O panel. REFERENCES
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