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/ Adam Richardson

Diamond acquires Micronics

Diamond Multimedia announced the company has completed its acquisition of Micronics Computers, Inc., an independent supplier of motherboards and multimedia peripherals for...

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: Diamond acquires Micronics. Diamond Multimedia announced the company has completed its acquisition of Micronics Computers, Inc., an independent supplier of motherboards and multimedia peripherals for personal computers and servers.

Diamond Multimedia also announced the formation of the company’s new System Business Unit, which will focus on providing advanced system board solutions to workstation and multimedia PC systems integrators and distributors. For PC players watching every demo, patch, driver and announcement right now, this is one more thing to keep on the board.