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Hardware Foxconn Enters Graphic Card Business
Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - March 14, 2006 5:44 PM

16 comment(s) - last by piroroadkill.. on Mar 18 at 5:01 PM

One of the biggest tech conglomerates of our time steps into the graphics cards business

Foxconn, a leading tier manufacturer of computer components, is one of the largest technology conglomerates in Asia. Many companies use Foxconn's massive production services to produce their components, including such companies as Intel, Leadtek, TUL, etc. At CeBIT 2006, Foxconn unveiled that it will begin shipping its own branded graphics cards in both ATI and NVIDIA designs.

Several other companies are using Foxconn to manufacture their own graphics cards but apparently, none of them seem to be acknowledging the fact that Foxconn may be stepping in on their territories. If Foxconn takes this as far as reports have been speculating, other top-tier manufacturers such as ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI all have another big challenger to face. All in all, this will likely benefit the consumer.

Foxconn plans to test the waters of the video card market with NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 series but says that ATI-based cards are well on their way.

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Great news...

By boinkle on 3/14/2006 9:21:44 PM , Rating: 2

Foxconn certainly have the resources to make price/performance choices the other manufacturers don't. After all, they're supplier to most of them...

I was recently blown away by the quality of some Foxconn branded motherboards for a couple of builds--after expecting crap, having used Asrock previously, couldn't find fault.

Hopefully they'll shake up the VGA arena, too.

RE: Great news...

By Samus on 3/14/2006 9:56:39 PM , Rating: 2

That's what I'm thinking. Foxconn's output exceeds practically every other taiwanese PCB/components manufacture combined. They're simply huge.

This can only mean we can expect great value from their products.

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RE: Great news...

By Avril on 3/14/2006 11:27:27 PM , Rating: 2

My only exposure to Foxconn was the mobo in a Cicero (Futureshop) PC that had 6 blown caps. Not very impressive.

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RE: Great news...

By hans007 on 3/14/2006 11:33:37 PM , Rating: 2

well quantity is not quality.

and its true ecs and foxconn make a lot of boards, so does whatever is left of FIC (i dontthink they even make consumer boards anymore)

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RE: Great news...

By INeedCache on 3/15/2006 12:35:25 AM , Rating: 2

Foxconn makes good boards. We've built a number of systems over the last few years with their boards and have had no failures or problems. I've seen my share of problems from Asus and Abit. For stability and reliability, I'd put them against anyone, except for Fujitsu-Siemens, they are definitely superior to all, in my opinion. I welcome their graphics cards.

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Top tier?

By DigitalFreak on 3/14/2006 9:06:44 PM , Rating: 2

Foxcon products have never been top tier. They're not bad, but not anywhere near Asus & Abit. I see another PNY/EVGA type vendor.

RE: Top tier?

By Cygni on 3/14/2006 9:37:53 PM , Rating: 2

See, the funny thing about saying Foxconn doesnt make top tier products, is that they do... they just dont have Foxconn's name on them. :D Foxconn produces a large % of both the components (such as cpu sockets, PCI slots, parallel port connectors, on and on), and entire boards themselves for the rest of the industry. Foxconn, as noted in the actual news post, has been producing videocards for many years now... they just have somebody elses name on the box. Foxconn is now cutting that middle man out, it seems, and going straight for the market themselves.

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RE: Top tier?

By Viditor on 3/14/2006 10:56:23 PM , Rating: 2

Intel motherboards are almost all manufactured by Foxconn...

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RE: Top tier?

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 3/14/2006 11:01:21 PM , Rating: 2

You're not going to like this but the three largest manufacturers of PC products are ECS, Foxconn and ASUS. MSI and Gigabyte are still pretty high up there, but the three I mentioned before are multi-billion dollar companies with multiple manufacturing facilities and R&D teams.

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Leadtech

By Googer on 3/14/2006 7:33:13 PM , Rating: 2

Wasn't Foxconn the company behind the Leadtech line of nVIDIA based video cards?

RE: Leadtech

By baddog121390 on 3/14/2006 8:55:58 PM , Rating: 2

yeah, both foxconn motherboards and leadtek video cards say 'winfast' on the boxes... im pretty sure foxconn had something to do with leadtek

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RE: Leadtech

By Cygni on 3/14/2006 9:34:34 PM , Rating: 2

Foxconn always produced Leadtek's motherboards. When Leadtek left the motherboard business in the states, Foxconn licensed the name and continued to sell the boards.

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If these are anything like their motherboards then...

By SunAngel on 3/15/2006 9:36:39 AM , Rating: 2

I'll pass. I've had nothing but bad luck with Foxconn boards. They make excellent connectors for everyone else, it's just their own motherboards are well lets say "CRAP" !!!

RE: If these are anything like their motherboards then...

By piroroadkill on 3/18/2006 5:01:12 PM , Rating: 2

They make Intel branded mainboards, which most people accept to be stable, if boring.

Their own branded ones had problems because they didn't use the capacitors of the quality that Intel specify on theirs.

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