Asus Makes an Offer to Buy ASRock @ SemiAccurate

Looks like i won't have to worry about getting those ASRock review samples after all.   This is currently rumor mill and not that the "news" is out share prices of ASRock will begin to fall, so much in fact that Asus can either buy them or they will end up folding.

Currently word has it that an offer has been made for Asrock, and Pegatron is essentially fine with the terms. This would take the #1 and #3 mobo makers and combine them, leaving the industry with one massive behemoth, one solid player, and a lot of minnows struggling to make waves. As of now, there is a first tier of Asus and Gigabyte, then Asrock, MSI, and ECS at less than half of that volume, plus a few niche players in the motherboard market.

TechReport did some digging and "re" discovered that ASRock used to be an Asus Company (which was no suprise to me) back in 2002 but was spun off to avoid compeition within the company.

It would seem that things just got real in the motherboard world.  I wonder how this will impact some of the other players in the field.

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