Gigabyte to apologize to Asus

From Digitimes -

The legal battle between Gigabyte Technology and Asus looks set to be over before it even started, with the former agreeing to issue an apology to be published, at its expense, in Taiwan newspapers on June 1. Asus, in turn, has agreed to drop all proceedings related to the issue.

Tensions between the two had flared up over "defamatory" comments Gigabyte made in an internal doc which challenged Asus's claims of using high-quality components and the merits of Asus's EPU energy saving technology and its own DES equivalent. Asus complained to the Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission and sued the Gigabyte employee who wrote the piece.