A good position never remains vacant for long.
Some manufacturers quit, and new ones enter into their positions.
Hercules Company in its turn simply went bankrupt. However, the masters with a good record ceded their niches in the market to younger newcomers, mostly chosen from the Taiwanese mainboard manufacturers. Among the freshers in graphics cards manufacturing, we noticed ABIT famous for its extraordinary mainboards with unique overclocking potential. If we don't take into account a really small number of graphics cards on i740 chip, which Intel were sold together with i440BX, then we will have every right to consider this move the first significant experience of the legendary mainboard manufacturer. The most widely spread opinion claimed that they would be just perfect for overclocking.