It's over before it even began. Gigabyte has agreed to publicly apologize to ASUS over that little
Energy Processing Unit spat they've been having. As part of the reported agreement, Gigabyte will tone down its "defamatory" comments while maintaining a more subdued supposition that its own DES technology is superior to ASUS' EPU. See, no need to take the matter to court, no need to distract senior execs from executing the business plan. All it took was a little public humiliation (and soap) to make them pals again.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tesseract @ May 30th 2008 8:12AM
Asus is the bomb, they make the best stuff.
chickenator @ May 30th 2008 8:40AM
...it blows?
E71 @ May 30th 2008 11:55AM
..And this article's image insinuates they're gay lovers. Uhoh, is ASUS coming after Engadget next?
Daniel @ May 30th 2008 8:12AM
lol that would be funny to see.
Rick @ May 30th 2008 8:16AM
Hahaha perfect picture for the post... Mad props to your media department. ALWAYS spot on...
hopenglish @ May 30th 2008 8:23AM
Who are those guys with the ducky?
Ignatius @ May 30th 2008 8:34AM
I hope you're joking.
hopenglish @ May 30th 2008 8:57AM
;)
Bob @ May 30th 2008 9:33AM
Eert and Brnie
hopenglish @ May 30th 2008 10:11AM
Ok, so I grew up in Switzerland didn't have TV here in the States until I was 11 but I HAVE heard of the two... At least from that Family Guy episode... Really, if people had known about how much of a jerk Ernie was, I don't know if he would have been on such a kid-friendly channel.
yokken @ May 30th 2008 8:34AM
I'm glad Gigabyte sucked it up and apologized. That takes some serious guts in the business world.
Ignatius @ May 30th 2008 9:00AM
Apologizing is a lot cheaper than civil suits.
Get in the van, I have candy @ May 30th 2008 11:20AM
Cheaper than pantsuits, too.
futurepastnow @ May 30th 2008 1:07PM
It's also a very Asian thing to do (and I don't mean that in a bad way).
Richard Lai @ May 30th 2008 9:05AM
What's with the Sesame Street pic? Am I just really out of touch?
Wwhat @ May 30th 2008 12:53PM
It's bert and ernie who are known to have a taxing friendship due to dissimilar personalities but one that still works you see, and it's how kids learn to get along.
ssuk @ May 30th 2008 10:41AM
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to revoke your Internet licence...
paakofi @ May 30th 2008 10:41AM
certainly the first idiot
CosterMonger @ May 30th 2008 10:43AM
so does that mean the EPU is real?
Wwhat @ May 30th 2008 1:00PM
The EPU is real, only it's 'dumb' and controlled by software, and the fight was more/mainly about the insinuation by gigabyte that asus mobo's have massively exploding capacitors, merely because they aren't japanese (allegedly), and showing a non-asus product picture with exploded caps while saying it.
Also gigabyte says asus lied when they claimed a 80+% powersaving when it's actually 50%ish.
It's all a bit over the top really, but I guess gigabyte does a lot of effort to use expensive and smart parts and gets a bit miffed when asus runs away with the medal while cutting corners a bit?
THJ @ May 30th 2008 11:24AM
+1 for The Office reference.
crow610 @ May 30th 2008 12:40PM
ERNIE! I told you to stop eating cookies in the bed.
Rick @ May 30th 2008 2:57PM
Rubber duckie, you're the one for me.
Next time ASUS should sick the Cookie Monster on Gigabyte. Their multi-color MB are hideous.