Mitac buys up Tyan!

[Greebe]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4853

MITAC IS TO COMPLETE its buy-out of American motherboard maker Tyan Computer next month, according to Taiwanese sources.

The company will acquire Tyan through an afilliate in a share swap deal, far-eastern wires report. The deal will give Mitac control of between 60 to 70 per cent of Tyan's shares, as we discovered back here . The reports also suggest that fellow Taiwanese company, Elitegroup (ECS) will also acquire at least 10 per cent of the US company.

[VJ]

Perhaps a strange question, but is this a good thing, or a bad thing ?
I know of Mitac through its laptops (they were one of the first with an Intel P4). What does this mean (in the long run?) for Tyan products ?

Jörg

[KvHagedorn]

PRobably a bad thing.

[DGhost]

probably not. Mitac is one of those companies thats been around forever and a day, has made boards for just about every platform, has made boards for just about every major OEM at some point (except HP... silly Asus)... who knows... their boards have been no frills but worked fairly well...

might be interesting to see how this pans out... it might help Tyan get accepted into more markets... it might make them a major OEM supplier for parts... there are a lot of positive things that could come from it....

who knows...

[Greebe]

KvH over the last year Tyan has had poor support and or fixes for any problem, so unlike the way they were not so long ago. If anything it should make them better.