SUS today released an official statement in response to recent development stemming from a Gigabyte press event held in Taiwan. Tom’s Hardware reported on the event, and noted that Gigabyte made several claims that ASUS had mislead customers by quietly modifying product specifications listed on the ASUS website without actually changing any hardware.

In its response, ASUS says that “a certain Taiwanese Motherboard Manufacturer” made false claims against ASUS motherboards. Specifically, ASUS is pointing its fingers at Gigabyte. In Gigabyte’s detailed comparison, the ASUS boards — specifically the P5K series — utilizing the ASUS EPU power saving system was nothing more than “cheating” users.

Gigabyte claimed:

We found that [Asus’] EPU in 4 phase mode CAN NOT act PWM phase changing while Asus still claims EPU is a hardware based energy saving chip. Don’t get fooled. The EPU (AIGear3+) is pure software based, not hardware! Read More at TomsHardware