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Gigabyte reportedly axing up to 10% of its staff
Things are a bit of a turmoil for Gigabyte ever since a year or two, and it hasn't ended. Many people have already moved or lost their jobs, and now another round is in sight as reportedly Gigabyte is to cut away another 5 to 10% of its personnel and marketing costs for 2019.
At the time of writing, Gigabyte has not issued any statements. Gigabyte has been reorganizing for a long time now, and a lot of good people have moved into new positions and even at competing companies. A further decline in GPU and motherboard sales forced the company to take action, according to DigiTimes.
Gigabyte's motherboard business is expected to be the primary target for layoffs, while there have been no plans to cut workforce at the graphics card business yet, according to the market observers.
Gigabyte shipped around 2.2 million motherboards in the fourth quarter of 2018, with its 2018 motherboard shipments reaching 11.45 million units, down from 2017's 12.6 million and 2016's 16 million. For 2019, Gigabyte is expected to focus on maintaining its volumes at above 10 million units.
Gigabyte shipped around 3.5 million graphics cards in 2016 and 4.8 million units in 2017 thanks to strong contribution from cryptocurrency mining demand. In 2018, the shipments had been sliding every quarter, dropping from the first quarter's 1.2 million to the second quarter's 850,000, the third quarter's 750,000 and the fourth quarter's 700,000, returning Gigabyte's annual shipments in 2018 back to the level of 2016 at around 3.5 million units.
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#5635316 Posted on: 02/04/2019 05:47 PM
That's a shame, I've actually been pretty happy with Gigabyte lately. Their Z390 lineup is solid, and they replaced my 980Ti with a 1080 when I was having issues with it.
That's a shame, I've actually been pretty happy with Gigabyte lately. Their Z390 lineup is solid, and they replaced my 980Ti with a 1080 when I was having issues with it.
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#5635330 Posted on: 02/04/2019 06:08 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only person dissatisfied with their GPUs. I've never been able to get a stable OC out of their cards and I gave up after trying multiple x80 cards.
I've said it many times, they do it on even more expensive products than what would be typically mid range in price. I've experienced that with 3 of their $500 video cards (back when video cards didn't cost as much as a car). And no I'm not dumb enough to fall for the same Gigabyte BS 3 times, it's Gigabyte so I went through multiple lemons.
I'm glad I'm not the only person dissatisfied with their GPUs. I've never been able to get a stable OC out of their cards and I gave up after trying multiple x80 cards.
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#5635457 Posted on: 02/04/2019 09:49 PM
This is going to continue to happen with these greedy companies if they keep raising their prices. Look at Nvidia. $1500 GPU's, massive loss in profits. As others have mentioned above Gigabyte releases a $1000 motherboard?! Lays off 10% of it's staff....lol...Defies logic.
This is going to continue to happen with these greedy companies if they keep raising their prices. Look at Nvidia. $1500 GPU's, massive loss in profits. As others have mentioned above Gigabyte releases a $1000 motherboard?! Lays off 10% of it's staff....lol...Defies logic.
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#5635482 Posted on: 02/04/2019 10:40 PM
I mean if they wanna release a crazy $1000 board that's fine, as long as they still have good lower end boards at reasonable prices. There always seems to be a market for rich people that don't care about price, but the rest of us don't have to buy it so who cares
I mean if they wanna release a crazy $1000 board that's fine, as long as they still have good lower end boards at reasonable prices. There always seems to be a market for rich people that don't care about price, but the rest of us don't have to buy it so who cares
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It's not so much a matter of what happens if you don't comply (like they don't punish you or anything) but rather if you don't do things their way, it's much harder to get things done.
I have a friend with an Asus laptop that had some major issue with Windows. I went to try backing up his stuff using a Linux-based bootable flash drive. The laptop just simply refused to boot from it. It would recognize the drive but it would just simply bypass it, even though it worked on dozens of other systems. I tried a bootable CD, which it also ignored. I even tried an actual Windows install disc, which it ignored. IIRC (it's been a while), SecureBoot had something to do with it and I wasn't able to turn it off. So, the whole computer was basically permanently locked-down. The only way I managed to salvage his stuff was to get Windows to de-crypt his files, take the HDD out, and put it in a different computer.
In another case, I've worked on an Asus laptop where even though it had a 64-bit CPU, it required a 32-bit EFI. Being built upon Intel's Bay Trail, it was also a total nightmare dealing with drivers, regardless of OS, and you had to go through Asus to get everything working (even though their drivers were out-of-date).
For some Asus motherboards and peripherals, I've encountered oddly proprietary tech for features that didn't really need it, like fan controllers, sensors, RGB controllers, and overclock utilities. You have to use their bloatware or you get no userland control at all.
I've also been very interested in getting the Asus NovaGo, since it's one of the first decent ARM-based laptops. However, so far it seems you're pretty much forced to use Windows with it. I could get so much more performance and real work potential out of it if I could ditch Windows, but Asus expresses 0 interest of supporting anything else.