ECS manufactures around 2 million boards a month. Mainly for OEM's and even for other "top notch" manufacturers who may need the capacity. Foxconn is also a very big company in terms of manufacturing, which has ventured into the retail market in a big recently. The strategies and costs of retailing are very high!!
ECS boards are value-for-money and should be positioned so. As it is the market for enthusiast products is very less so it would be a big mistake to price them high. I have seen a few of their boards with those vintron and PCS computers, who seem to import them at cheap rates. Nice to see them in the market though. More competition.
Lol. The computer industry IS managed by drop-outs and incompetent ppl. Maybe if one of us (i assume most of us are intelligent) were to setup shop and deal with the stuff we can imagine a better situation. Ofcourse we wont cuz we are more comfortable in the so called blue collared jobs. Whatever job we look down upon is never done as good we need it done. I dont say its our fault but the blame doesnt entirely lie with the govt.
Raghu.
