In hindsight of the information posted last week, ASRock felt compelled to issue a press release. ASRock now states it will roll out its new graphics card business in various regions based on internal planning. 

Regions with first priorities are APEC and Latin America. Then ASRock will gradually launch the business in other regions: here's the full press release:

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 8, 2018 – A leading global motherboard and graphics card manufacturer, ASRock, announced entering the graphics card market with the Phantom Gaming range – a strong line up of AMD Radeon™ RX500 series graphics card in April 2018. Initially, ASRock will roll out graphics card business in various regions based on internal planning. Regions with first priorities are APEC and Latin America. Then ASRock will gradually launch the business in other regions. Thanks for all media friends recently putting attention on our Phantom Gaming graphic card business and giving them massive coverages.