The brand name "ABIT" and other intangible properties, including patents and trademarks, were acquired by Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. (USI) in May 2006.

To keep pace with their "good" sales figures, they opened a factory in Suzhou, China, and moved to new headquarters in Neihu, Taipei.

[citation needed] Abit chose to outsource two low-end boards for trial production from June 2002 to Elitegroup Computer Systems.

[12][13] ABIT sold its own office building in Taipei to Deutsche Bank in order to raise money to cut its debt.

[14] In the late 1990s, the company introduced their Softmenu feature, one of the first jumperless CPU configuration systems that enable overclocking to be adjusted from the BIOS instead of fiddling with jumpers.

μGuru provided a special connector for a panel in a 5¼" drive bay to display CPU speed and voltage settings.

[citation needed] ABIT was the first motherboard manufacturer to introduce 133 MHz FSB operation for the Intel BX chipset with the aptly named AB-BX133.

[citation needed] During Computex 2008, Universal Abit unveiled the FunFab P80 Digital Photo Frame and Printer.