abit to Close its Doors on December 31

Earlier this year, rumors began to float around about the potential demise of abit, or at least their motherboard division, and while a few sites posted “fact” about the company’s closing, it never happened. Time went on, and the rumor seemed to be put to sleep. According to Cameron over at TweakTown, though, abit’s doors will officially be shut on December 31st.

The article doesn’t mention the source of the fact, but it does seem credible. The company’s last great motherboard was the P35-based IP35 PRO. After that, none of their follow-up models seemed to garner much attention, which is likely due to the lack of a push on the marketing side.

Another reason it sounds credible is that while in Taiwan this past summer for Computex, in meeting with abit, the only thing they could really talk about was their FunFab digital photo frames. Our guide didn’t have much to say on the motherboards, except that they were new, and used Intel’s latest chipsets. It was the FunFab that was the ultimate focus, and it seems that side of the business didn’t take off like the company hoped.

Many people consider abit to be the ones responsible for the overclocking revolution, and it’s rare to hear bad things about their motherboard’s reliability and stability. I haven’t used an abit board in quite a while, so I can’t comment much on that, but the impact that the company has had on the motherboard landscape is apparent.

Fast forward to this year and ABIT were left with a single product line to try and keep the company from collapsing – digital picture frames with the ability to print. They didn’t work out as planned, there were rumors of ABIT re-entering the graphics card market once again, but those rumors didn’t eventuate. Computer enthusiasts join me in bidding farewell to the once mighty strong ABIT – they are going to close the company once and for all on December 31st.