More than 100% Excellence

Taipei, Taiwan, January 6, 2010 – The winners of the 2011 (19th) "Taiwan Excellence Awards" are now revealed! Competition for the Taiwan Excellence Awards, organized by the Taiwan External Development Council (TAITRA) under the supervision of the Bureau of Foreign Trade (Ministry of Economic Affairs), lasted for over two months, which involves document reviews and on-site evaluations by more than 70 renowned scholars and experts. GIGABYTE's products stood out from 974 competitors by the most stringent evaluation process; GIGABYTE once again scored 100% winning rate. Among the products, the high-performance motherboard GA-X58A-UD9, featuring the proprietary GIGABYTE Unlocked Power technology with an all new 24 phase design, was selected for the final tournament of “Taiwan Excellence Gold Award”. GIGABYTE’s leadership in innovative motherboard technology has been affirmed by the industry.

Taiwan Excellence is the highest accolade awarded by government for Innovalues. It heralds Taiwan’s ascent to world-class quality in product innovation, design and manufacturing, representing the highest standards which Taiwan products must meet to maintain its competitive edge in the global markets. Committed to providing amazing products, GIGABYTE preceded a strict internal selection process for this year’s Taiwan Excellence Awards. With our dedication to the pursuit of excellence, GIGABYTE’s entries, including GA-H55N-USB3 Mini-ITX Motherboard, GTX 470 Super Overclock Graphics Card, K8100 Gaming Keyboard, BooktopT1125 Notebook and M1405 Notebook, were all recognized by the Taiwan Excellence Awards for innovative design and high quality.
The TAITRA stated that the products nominated for the Gold Awards this year made extensive use of green carbon reducing concepts and technologies. The innovations in function served as a role model to other products in the same category. The GA-X58A-UD9 motherboard from GIGABYTE, nominated for the Gold Award, is a perfect example with is unique 24 phase Unlocked Power design that offers the industry's best processor power delivery and effectively increases system resource utilization. The GA-X58A-UD9 is also equipped with other exclusive technologies from GIGABYTE including 333 Onboard Acceleration, On/Off Charge and AutoGreen. AutoGreen technology allows the consumer to remotely manage their computer's power-saving features with ease using their mobile phone's Bluetooth feature. For the user, this delivers maximum system performance with the least amount of power!
GIGABYTE's innovative Booktop, the revolutionary docking station concept, also continues to win new awards as well. The M1405 Notebook, featuring an exclusive NVIDIA® GT220 graphics embedded docking station, previously won the Good Design Award in Japan and has now been recognized by the Taiwan Excellence Award. With the docking station, T1125 Notebook instantly turns into a tablet PC on the go and a desktop PC with a DVD-ROM at home. T1125 is the first three-in-one computing device that provides users with a multitasking mode and completely revolutionizes all existing laptop user scenarios!
      
Designed specifically for overclocking competition and gaming battle, GIGABYTE’s secret weapon GTX 470 Super Overclock Graphics Card is built with NVDIA GeForce GTX 470 GPU. Based on 40nm processor and advanced GDDR5 memory technology, the powerful new GPU consists of ground-breaking features including Microsoft DirectX® 11 and NVIDIA PhysX™ which leads to incredibly immersive HD gaming experience and unrivaled performance. The new triple fan WINDOFRCE™ 3X cooling design effectively reduces turbulence from the three fans for improved cooling; making it the best graphics card cooling solution for gaming enthusiasts.

The Taiwan Excellence Gold Awards will be announced at the end of April this year. With its perfect record of a 100% winning rate, GIGABYTE's outstanding performance in product innovation will undoubtedly see the GA-XZ58A-UD9 motherboard produce another exceptional result.