Gigabyte Fires Back on Rumors of P67 Board Cancellation

There are several tech sites out there who thrive on a scatter gun approach to reporting the news, the idea is to keep firing, eventually you'll hit something good.  I guess it works since they seem to be making money at it. 

Early today there as a widespread report claiming that Gigabyte was going to shift their entire motherboard focus on the new Z68 chipset and basically stop producing the P67 version.  While it seems silly that Gigabyte would stop a good thing there might be some truth in there someplace.

Here is a snip from Gigabyte in response to the rumor.

The industry reports about GIGABYTE cancelling all P67 projects and moving 100% to next gen Intel 6 series chipset models are misleading and unfounded. GIGABYTE will continue producing P67 chipset motherboards until the end of 2011, and the H67 models are expected to be available well into 2012.

Rumor sites often employ "perspective" when coming up with new stories.  For instance in the issue of Gigabyte P67 projects the truth is they will still be producing current P67 designs until they can no longer obtain chipsets from Intel.  The "twisted" truth is that since initial design for current P67 motherboards was done MONTHS ago and with Z68 being the next best thing you can assume that Gigabyte will be focusing their efforts on the new board design.

Both are true but the "twisted" version isn't very PC but is interesting enough that people will read it and naive people will believe it.

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