ASUS Sues Gigabyte Green War Turns Into Legal War

ASUS and Gigabyte have entered into a legal tussle officially and below isthe statement issued by ASUS :

ASUS condemns the defamatory and false accusations raised by ourcompetitor, Gigabyte. Gigabyte, without a full understanding of ASUS´engineering design and methods, has made false accusations against ASUSmotherboards´ EPU features and the quality of ASUS´ motherboards´ components.Also, in a press briefing presentation, Gigabyte used a photograph with blown-up(exploded) capacitors and led the audience to believe it was an ASUS product, tosupport its false allegations that ASUS uses questionable quality components.However, the image was found to be taken from a photograph of a VGA cardmanufactured by another vendor. The action of misrepresenting a third partyproduct to be an ASUS product is truly defamatory and clearly outside the realmof decent competition.

ASUS takes pride in its innovations, which are measured against the higheststandards in the industry at all stages of operation - from project development,engineering, manufacturing to service. Through a combination of the bestquality-controlled components and processes, ASUS delivers state-of-the arttechnology breakthroughs to meet customers´ needs. Every breakthrough is theresult of huge R&D engineering efforts. Hence, while it is common to havecompetition among companies, the use of the above mentioned methods aredefamatory and condemnable. ASUS deeply resents Gigabyte´s action. Yesterday(May 22nd 2008), ASUS has reported such acts to the Fair Trade Commission ofTaiwan. Today (May 23rd 2008), ASUS has officially filed a lawsuit againstGigabyte for those defamatory acts.