GIGABYTE Announces Renewed Partnership with on Visual Graphics Solutions Gigabyte will also continue to be a NVIDIA nForce-based partner

Taipei - October 22, 2003 GIGABYTE Technology, the worldwide leading IT product provider, unveils its new NVIDIA® graphics card strategy today. Continuing with its successful partnership of NVIDIA nForce based platforms, GIGABYTE now adds to its wide range of products, a series of NVIDIA GeForce GPU based graphics cards to fulfill the market expectations and customer demands for outstanding graphical solutions on the various computing platforms.

GIGABYTE had in the past one year announced a series of performance supporting NVIDIA nForce3 150 PRO, NVIDIA nForce3 150, NVIDIA nForce2 400 series and NVIDIA nForce 2 IGP, which gained worldwide medias’ recognitions. Furthermore, GIGABYTE will be releasing a new series of graphics accelerators supporting the latest NVIDIA GeForce GPU with versatile features and benefits for the enthusiast and the mainstream market.

“GIGABYTE is an award-winning suppier of both graphics boards and motherboard products and they are indeed an ideal partner for NVIDIA,” said Jeff Fisher executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA. “The fact that they have decided to renew their partnership with NVIDIA and to use our graphics processing units is a testament to our products, our relationships and the support network we have in place for our board partners.”

“GIGABYTE is always proud of providing quality products with leading technologies to the market. We foresee a synergistic integration with NVIDIA and GIGABYTE to create more consumer benefits to end users when digital home entertainment becomes more and more mainstream in the coming years.” said David Chiang, general manager of Gigabyte Channel Business.

Gigabyte graphics accelerators based on the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, GeForce FX5600, GeForce FX5200 and GeForce MX 440-8X series of graphics accelerators are expected to be available by early November worldwide. The Gigabyte product range is as follows:

GBT MODEL GV-N59128D-P GV-N56X128D-P GV-N52128D GV-N52128T-P GV-N4464D GV-N4464T-P GeForce GeForce GeForce GeForce GeForce 4 GeForce 4 GPU FX 5900 FX 5600XT FX 5200 FX 5200 MX 440-8X MX 440-8X (NV35) (NV31) (NV34) (NV34) (NV18) (NV18) MEM SIZE 128MB 128MB 128MB 128MB 64MB 64MB RAMDAC 400MHz 400MHz 350MHz 350MHz 350MHz 350MHz DVI Yes Yes Yes No Yes No TV-Out Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes BUS AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X Direct X 9 9 9 9 8.x 8.x

About GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE Technology has built an unshakable reputation and solid foundation in the computer industry on the reliability of its motherboards and add-on card products. In diversifying from this solid base, GIGABYTE Technology is devoting their profuse resources to expanding into new product lines, such as desktop and IA solutions, notebook PCs, PC peripherals, broadband routers, switches, wireless LAN and bluetooth, servers, and NAS (Network Attached Storage). GIGABYTE Technology has accomplished the highest production standards in the electronics industry through its persistence, dedication to quality, collaborative team effort and leadership. These efforts have earned GIGABYTE Technology an eminent and widespread reputation, as well as the focus of much attention and recognition from all directions. In 2003, for the second year in a row, GIGABYTE has been named the No.1 motherboard producer and one of Taiwan’s most influential manufacturers by PC Magazine. For the sixth consecutive year, GIGABYTE has won the coveted "Taiwan Symbol of Excellence", making it the only motherboard manufacturer to successively achieve such a feat. As of 2003, GIGABYTE is the only motherboard manufacturer to win the “Gold National Award of Excellence,” the highest award given for product achievement in Taiwan. For more information about Gigabyte Technology, please visit the website: www.gigabyte.com.tw ### GIGABYTE and the GIGABYTE logo are registered trademarks of GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. NVIDIA, GEFORCE and NVIDIA NFORCE are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks, noted as such or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.