More than half of the market motherboards from Asus and Gigabyte

Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology hold the first place regard to the delivery of motherboards last 2012: the two companies have in fact Taiwanese respectively delivered 22 and19 million motherboards under its own brand in the market do-it-yourself, going together to constitute 51.3% of total deliveries in the sector amounted to 80 million units.

The gap between the direct pursuers is quite large: according to the information provided by the sources cited by Digitimes website, ASRock and MSI have in fact given 7.7 and 5 million motherboards under its own brand.

As further evidence of how the Chinese market is becoming more and more important in the technological landscape, it is estimated that in China have been delivered about 28 million motherboards in 2012, or 35% of the total. Of these, 9 million are Asustek and Gigabyte 8 million, for a combined total of 60.7%. The remaining deliveries of approximately 11 million spartitie from ASRock, MSI, Biostar Microtech International, Colorful Technology and Wave.

Intel has decided to get off the motherboard market under its own brand, annual sales of approximately five million units will be divided mainly from Asustek, Gigabyte, ASRock and ECS, which has embarked on the manufacture of motherboards for Intel ODM.

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Dell, discontent among shareholders on the offer of acquisition.

According to information released by the Reuters, it seems that various shareholders and owners of investment company shares Dell have shown some concern to the terms of the agreement proposed by the consortium of buyers formed by Silver Lake and Michael Dell to transform society in a private company with the release from trade.
The agreement must now be able to pass two milestones: the approval of the guarantors of the market and the opinion of the shareholders will be expressed by a simple majority vote. Some of them, especially those with greater participation, have expressed some reservations on the agreement or have already said they would vote against the offer.

There is also to be considered that with the spread of rumors about the negotiations, various high-risk investors who purchased shares Dell, hoping for a favorable outcome agreement. Overall it has been estimated that this type of investors are in possession of 20% of the company, and may try to get together to aim for a higher bid to get a better return on investment. However, according to well-informed sources close to the consortium of buyers, it seems that Silver Lake and Michael Dell did not have any intention to draw a higher bid.

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No BlackBerry 10 for Japan

Japan is one of the most important markets for smartphones, especially for the penetration of solutions with high technological content. It is also a complicated market, in which the features and details that decree the success of a terminal are in some cases very different from those of the rest of the world.

In the case of smartphones that landed in the land of the rising sun from overseas a forced path is that of adaptation to the language of the operating system and the Japanese writing system. A path that requires support costs, costs that BlackBerry has decided not to be justified in the case of OS Mobile recently launched by the size of the market for the solutions of the Canadian producer on the Japanese market. BlackBerry 10, at least for the moment, then will arrive in Japan and the Canadian company focus attention and resources in the rest of the world.

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