If this means less Fatality-style motherboards with 30 LEDs and half a dozen mini-fans, I'm all for Abit dying.

And that I'm saying with a trusty IC7-G in my puter.

This really sucks. Abit was one of the only board manufacturers I actually trust. I've had Asus boards go up in flames (literally), flakey MSI, Gigabytes that don't work proplerly, FoxConn boards that don't like to boot... Abit was the only board i felt comfortable buying for my own systems knowing it would work as intended out of the box.

I think if something major or dramatic was goin to happen to Abit, L'Inq would be all over it like white on rice...they tend to be good at sniffing out juicy rumors, true or false. Havent heard much from them about it other than the temporary halt issued by the TAIEX. Makes me think this will all just blow over.

"One industry source..."

And would that source be a competitor, per chance? Not the most responsible anonymous quote I've ever read here, by a long shot.

good god, just don't stop the flow of Rubycon & Nichicon capacitors :)