ASRock issues statement about its video card availability

Days ago, there was quite some ruckus about ASRock's graphics cards. As you may know, the company entered the video card market in April as an AMD-exclusive brand. The German branch of Tom's Hardware published a review of a Phantom Gaming series video card from ASRock and received a curious e-mail from ASRock. The company wanted to know where Tom's got its sample, as the Phantom cards aren't available in Europe. Quite a controversy arose as the marketing representative claimed AMD banned ASRock from selling video cards in Europe.

Another ASRock representative contradicted that story in an exchange with a former AMD employee, and now ASRock issued a public statement to clarify the matter. In the message below, ASRock explains APEC (Asia-Pacific regions) and Latin America were the company's first priority, other markets will follow later.

A leading global motherboard and graphics card manufacturer, ASRock, announced entering the graphics card market with the Phantom Gaming range – a strong line up of AMD Radeon™ RX500 series graphics card in April 2018. Initially, ASRock will roll out graphics card business in various regions based on internal planning. Regions with first priorities are APEC and Latin America. Then ASRock will gradually launch the business in other regions. Thanks for all media friends recently putting attention on our Phantom Gaming graphic card business and giving them massive coverages.

Interestingly, the Tom's Hardware article now states that the original quote was "removed at the request of the [ASRock] employee in question to protect him from further problems with AMD."