Gigabyte has break up in two, breaking off its enterprise enterprise as a subsidiary known as Giga Computing Know-how that is centered on gross sales and help for its data-center merchandise.
The Taiwanese firm is well-known for its motherboards and GPU playing cards for gaming, but additionally for a number of type components of servers. Breaking out Giga Computing right into a separate unit permits it to higher cater to the wants of enterprise prospects, in response to Daniel Hou, CEO of the brand new enterprise. “That is simply one other extension of our long-term plan that can enable our enterprise options higher react to market forces and to higher tailor merchandise to varied markets,” Hou mentioned in an announcement.
“Though we go by a special identify, we’ll proceed operations as we all the time have, and our prospects will proceed all the identical relationships and have excessive expectations from our well-established server enterprise unit that gives a various product portfolio.”
Merchandise falling underneath the brand new entity embrace servers configured for HPC, storage, and AI, in addition to liquid-cooling know-how. For instance, final 12 months, the corporate launched a line of servers primarily based on Ampere’s Altra or Altra Max Arm-based processors paired with Nvidia GPUs, aimed toward workloads equivalent to AI and HPC.
Gigabyte’s 2021 annual monetary report mentioned its server/enterprise enterprise accounts for 25% of its $4 billion in income. That places it effectively behind the likes of Supermicro and different motherboard producers, so the creation of Giga Computing may be an try and bolster the enterprise.
Intel just lately made an analogous transfer when it shifted accountability for its client and enterprise graphics choices from a single devoted graphics group to 2 separate current items, one centered on client merchandise and one centered on data-center merchandise.
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