Gigabyte to manufacture in India

Gigabyte Technology, a leading technology company of Taiwan
and one of the top five manufacturers of motherboards in the world, announced an
investment of $30 million for India. Richard Ma, Executive Vice President,
Gigabyte Technology said, "We are excited at the vast potential that the
Indian market offers and the excellent opportunity it provides to set up
facilities here. We have decided to make India as one of the hubs for our Asia
Pacific operations and are looking at making substantial investments in
manufacturing and R&D in India."

RICHARD MA : Indian market has excellent opportunity to set up facilities here

For this purpose, Gigabyte Technology (India) Ltd. is in the
process of acquiring 10 acres of land in Goa. Initially, Gigabyte India will
take up manufacturing of its products for domestic consumption and will further
expand to supplement its global operations. With steady capacity build up, this
plant may also take up contract manufacturing for other global brands.

Gigabyte entered India about four years ago with an exclusive
distribution tie-up with D-Link (India) for selling motherboards. In August
2005, this tie-up was converted into a joint venture - Gigabyte Technology
(India) Ltd. - with equity participation from both D-Link (India) Ltd. and
Gigabyte Technology Co.

The Company entered the consumer market with the launch of
laptops and a range of peripherals like optical drives, LCD monitors, mouse,
keyboard, and flash disk (pen drive).

Meanwhile, Gigabyte also announced the launch of wide screen laptops based on
Intel Napa platform and dual core processors for the first time in India. In
addition, the company is launching smart low cost PCs, networked PCs, small
business servers, PDA smart phones and entertainment PCs based on media centre
platform.

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