Gigabyte Technology

Founded in Taiwan in 1986, it is one of the three — alongside ASUS and MSI — that carve up the enthusiast motherboard market. Graphics cards and gamer components carry the Aorus brand; servers and AI racks are the less visible but increasingly important side of the business.

In 2023 the security firm Eclypsium showed that firmware on roughly 270 Gigabyte motherboards quietly dropped a Windows program at every boot, using a mechanism that lets firmware inject code into the operating system. The program fetched and ran updates from the internet, partly over plain HTTP. It was meant as a convenience; it looked and behaved exactly like a supply chain attack. Gigabyte shipped fixed versions within weeks.