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• Special report on Taiwan's second-tier board makers
  Wednesday 4 September 2002 – 06:58
  The motherboard-making business, with shipments of more than 100 million units a year, has been one of the most fiercely competitive of all the IT industries.
• Taiwan's top four makers ship 21.53 million motherboards in first quarter
  Monday 12 April 2004 – 06:39
  The four largest motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan, Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), shipped a combined 21.53 million units last quarter, a small drop of 1.8% from the 21.93 million sold in the fourth quarter of 2003.
• ALi launches Taiwan's first 802.11a/b/g chip solution
  Tuesday 24 June 2003 – 02:18
  ALi has debuted the M4305, Taiwan's first dual-band, triple-mode WLAN controller.
• Taiwan's makers test markets with Linux-based notebooks
  Monday 22 March 2004 – 04:28
  Taiwan's notebook makers, including Asustek Computer and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), have started marketing low-cost Linux-based notebooks in the US market, according to sources at the Taiwanese makers.
• Taiwan's software piracy rate down by 10%
  Friday 6 June 2003 – 04:16
  Taiwan's software piracy rate has dropped by 10 percentage points to 43% in 2002 compared to the year before, according to a study recently released by the US-based Business Software Alliance (BSA).

• Taiwan's New Economy is Sink or Swim*
  Wednesday 6 September 2006 – 01:56
  Asus' recent acquisition of Gigabyte depicts the conversion of the IT business into a mature industry. Those who don't want to disappear need to expedite their business, because brand-building and niche-crawling don't cut the mustard. Who is next on the list?