Gigabyte makes fun of "Made in China" and sees their shares collapse
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MerolaC
Then wikipedia is lying to me telling me that it's the Republic of China...
Regardless, they are no better when it comes to making stuff.
Undying
Their high end boards are quite good. Shame software sucks and its always late.
anthos
Republic of China and People's Republic of China are two different countries (unless you ask a Chinese). You really need to brush up your Asian politics and geography.
KissSh0t
Wikipedia is indeed not lying, maybe you are a bit confused... I will simplify it for you.
Taiwan is The Republic of China, it's capitol lies in Taipei, which is in the country of Taiwan.
China is The People's Republic of China, It's capitol lies in Beijing, which is in the country of China.
Valken
Hell yeh, you tell them!
It not's like a whole country banned a social media app that their own citizens used to make fun of their own president and government... oh wait, snap!
Noisiv
Original statement:
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Walking back:
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only 90% percent of Gigabyte production is in mainland China 🙄
Free tip:
Maybe think twice be4 putting a Tourette victim at the very top of a multi-billion company marketing
Valken
I just wish these shills would own up to their words and actually MOVE 90% of their production elsewhere! If not, why make it hard for themselves to conduct business is beyond me.
I am sure there is a market for 100% made in Taiwan, USA or Japan like in the old days. Who cares if it costs 5x as much as long as it is not made in "Chyna".
MonstroMart
Highly debatable whatever the products would be of higher quality if made in USA/Camada/UK/... paying people 5 dollars a day. Very highly debatable so far from true.
cucaulay malkin
communism would go down fast and hard crying all the way
Venix
North Korea: Am i a joke to you ?
JamesSneed
Well they certainly aren't made in China now 🙂
SamuelL421
As others mentioned, Taiwan is its own country with its own government. If you ask a friend of the CCP (brainwashed Chinese nationalism...) you'll get a very different response since they have been claiming Taiwan as their own and threatening invasion/war for decades. Since China is massive and has a huge military the ROC (Taiwan) basically has to just keep quiet about it in most situations publicly since their only option is to be on the defense. End result, there are a lot of places online - some wikipedia articles too - where you can find edits by Chinese trolls that list Taiwan as part of China. It is not.
Back on the topic, I think the "Chinese quality = bad" will eventually fade or turn into something else. If anything now the problem is that there is a lack of oversight or punishment for shady companies and products - think the made up company names on random parts and gadgets on Amazon. It's a mixed bag now, you've got Chinese products that are excellent quality being sold for reasonable prices and you have the crappiest cheap junk being sold by the shady fly-by-night companies. The problem is that it's extremely difficult to tell the difference between the two as a consumer.
Noisiv
while we're there getting those lovely jobs back, re-open coal mines. nothing like quality slaving for black lung in mineshafts
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Dragam1337
At least north korea isn't oppressing alot of other countries.
DannyD
End of the day Gigabyte is proud of their products which is good news for consumer, the marketing guy needs a written warning tho.
imo they make best mobos (at least at my price point) and some v good other products which tend to be very robust.
stanley Luymes
Says the company with the worst rma in the business. the only computer products i ever buy warranty for are gigabytes or hard drives ,while they normally have great products should you ever have to rma through gigabyte you will be sorely disappointed. Case in point : bought a brand new motherboard ,built the computer 3 weeks later found the board was defective ,rmaed it 4x and never received a working board back ! One board was shaped like a banana and couldn't even be mounted for fear of cracking it.
DannyD
sorted a mobo issue with a board sold to friend, he got fast rma and all he had was my original receipt.
tunejunky
this is the problem from being just about as far from China as Cuba is from America, if you're Cuban.
except worse because Cuba has no plan of "reuniting" with the U.S. and the languages are different.
granted, Cantonese is not Mandarin (official state language), but it's spoken by more Chinese so the propaganda flows on a daily basis.
waltc3
The stock will recover. I can never understand why people make so much over a temporary stock drop--it doesn't affect the company--in this case, Gigabyte. When the share price drops it only affects the face value of the shares that are outstanding--owned by shareholders--it doesn't affect company assets at all--unless it's a situation in which the company owns most of its outstanding shares (very rare). Additionally, when stock prices fall that means investors can buy more shares for the same amount that bought them fewer shares before the drop, etc. And when the shares go up...as they inevitably will when companies have good fundmentals...those who bought when the shares were lower will benefit the most. I don't think that gossipy news has much at all to do with share prices. Those are affected by events and motives unrelated to the "evening news" in the great majority of cases.
Andrew LB
iPhones are assembled in China. The accelerometer is made in Germany by Bosch, Gyroscope in Switzerland at STMicro, Japan makes the camera, compass, memory, and LCD screen (some made by LG also), and the glass, wifi chip, and audio chips are made in USA. Samsung makes the battery in South Korea, Taiwan makes the Processor, Touch ID, etc.
The reason why iPhones are built so well is due to proper quality control and oversight. FoxConn which is actually named Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd manufactures products not just in China, but also Thailand, Malaysia, Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore, and Philippines.
Great quality products CAN be built in China, but the vast majority of stuff that comes out of China is absolute crap. Many companies find that the manufacturers in China if not kept on a very short leash will quietly change to cheaper plastics and metal alloys and other means to cut costs, resulting in your products quality going downhill. Everyone in industry knows this which is why for example companies like Makita Tool manufacture tools for the japanese market in Japan, yet the rest of the world gets lesser quality stuff made in China. Ever see a red colored Makita Drill? Very rare outside Japan.
