Will it Damage the interests of consumers?

Asus is facing a tough situation recently, it loses $1.12 billion in value due to Pegatron spinoff; stock market traders in Taiwan dump Asus stock, it looks like Asus might be getting ready to pull the plug on its motherboard business unit. The bad news doesn’t stop here, as Digitimes is reporting that Pegatron will be focusing on ASRock rather than Asus and as such Asus will only be outsourcing about 30 percent of its motherboard business to Pegatron. The rest will apparently be going to an FIC subsidiary in China. This isn’t a good sign as FIC was never known as a high quality motherboard manufacturer. If Asus ends up having quality issues it could see consumers jumping to other brands, such as its current main competitors, Gigabyte and MSI. In addition, Asus is aspiring on becoming the next Acer, as Acer has been a phenomenally successful company and leading NB in the market.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/15/asus-loses-112billion-value-due-pegatron-spinoff/

http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21599

http://www.www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20091211171248_Asus_to_Spin_Off_Pegatron_Technologies_Completely.html

http://www.1up.com/boards/posts/list/46714.page (forum)

Asus is facing a tough situation recently, it loses $1.12 billion in value due to Pegatron spinoff; stock market traders in Taiwan dump Asus stock, it looks like Asus might be getting ready to pull the plug on its motherboard business unit. The bad news doesn’t stop here, as Digitimes is reporting that Pegatron will be focusing on ASRock rather than Asus and as such Asus will only be outsourcing about 30 percent of its motherboard business to Pegatron. The rest will apparently be going to an FIC subsidiary in China. This isn’t a good sign as FIC was never known as a high quality motherboard manufacturer. If Asus ends up having quality issues it could see consumers jumping to other brands, such as its current main competitors, Gigabyte and MSI. In addition, Asus is aspiring on becoming the next Acer, as Acer has been a phenomenally successful company and leading NB in the market.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/15/asus-loses-112billion-value-due-pegatron-spinoff/

http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21599

http://www.www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20091211171248_Asus_to_Spin_Off_Pegatron_Technologies_Completely.html

http://www.1up.com/boards/posts/list/46714.page (forum)

Well.....Asus think this is a good idea? They must have reason to believe theres more to gain than lose. If their mobos are such a money-spinner, theres no reason to drop them