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Gainward Drivers

Corporate Profile of Gainward Corporation.

Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan Gainward is an award-winning company that specializes in computer hardware. This company offers an impressive lineup of products, and many of its graphics cards are on based exclusively on high-performance NVIDIA chipsets. It also has a nice range of graphics solutions based on ATI-based chips thanks to a successful launch of the ATI 4800 series. The company recently released a set of cards that break the traditional mold of NVIDIA specifications, allowing end-users to enjoy a more powerful gaming experience.

Gainward graphics cards are known for their “overclockability,” a trait that has made them a big hit among enthusiasts. One of most its popular products is the Golden Sample range of graphics solutions. Over-clocking past their original stock speeds, these cards are thoroughly tested before being sold and shipped, ensuring the utmost of quality for the customers. The Golden Sample line includes the NVIDIA 7900 GS, 7900 GT, 7950 GT and the 8800 GT. More recent are the ATI based HD 4850, HD 4870 and the HD 4870×2. Fans of this company will attest that Gainward graphics cards have always been designed with the end-users in mind. There was a time when its Golden Sample cards were packaged with a voucher that could be redeemed for a downloadable game at the popular “gainwardgamingzone.com” site. This same product line now comes bundled with a free game.

Due to heavy competition in the market, Gainward fell on tough times like so many others and was eventually acquired by Palit Microsystems, a move that put it back in contention with industry leaders such as Gigabyte. As a subsidiary of Palit, Gainward currently has a beneficial relationship with both NVIDIA and AMD’s ATI graphics division. The company now has a diverse selection of powerful graphics cards which equals good news for everyone, especially the overclocking enthusiast market.

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Diamond Drivers

Business Profile of Diamond Multimedia.

Diamond Multimedia is a company that manufactures a wide variety of multimedia products. Though it specializes in graphics cards, sound cards, motherboards, modems and MP3 players, the company enjoyed its start with Trackstar, an add-on card for the PC that emulated Apple II computers. Diamond Multimedia is best known as one of the pioneers of 2D and 3D graphics cards during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Over the years, Diamond Multimedia graphics cards have consisted of numerous products, starting with the Speedstar series in the early 1990s. Speedstar was a line of low-end chips used as graphics solutions for well known entities such as Cirrus Logic. While not the most powerful on the market segment, they sold well and even outperformed products by rivals like Trident Microsystems. Diamond graphics cards achieved massive success with the Stealth, a line that offered an excellent value and remains its most popular series today. The company ventured into the world of 3D graphics with the launch of product lines such as Monster3D and Viper in the late 1990s.

Diamond sound cards hit the market in the early 2000s with products that included the Monster Sound line and the innovative MX300. This soundcard was based on Aureal Semiconductor’s Vortex2 audio, a feature that offered a level of 3D audio that had yet to be experienced previously. Unfortunately, Aureal folded to bankruptcy thereafter, thus putting an end to Diamond’s revolutionary sound cards. Although other lines were released, and the disappointing MX400 was the last before the company’s resurfacing in 2003.

The failure of Aureal marked a downturn for the sound card market, prompting Diamond to move away from the add-on board business. In 2003, the company, brand name, assets and all were purchased by Best Data. It now functions as a division of Best Data under the original name. The company still actively markets Diamonds graphics cards and ATI Raedon powered cards from its website.

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Epson Drivers

Corporate Profile of Seiko Epson Corporation.

Seiko Epson Corporation, known simply as Epson, is a Japanese company that has been in operation since 1942. It is currently one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic components. Its massive portfolio of products includes a wide range of printers, scanners, home theater and multimedia projectors, televisions, desktop and laptop computers, integrated circuits and much more. Though based in Nagano, Japan, the company has a number of subsidiaries located throughout the world to serve its base of global customers.

Epson was backed by an investment from the Seiko Group, which started as a producer of watch parts. It developed and commercialized numerous timepiece technologies from the 1940s through the 1990s. To the current day, Seiko Epson is still heavily involved in the business of watch making, with the products being sold through a subsidiary known as the Seiko Watch Corporation.

The company jumped into the printer business in the 1960s, introducing the world’s first mini-printer in 1968. Labeled the EP-101, this electronic printer would eventually lead to the birth of the name Epson. Epson printers took off quickly as the company unveiled the TX-80 dot-matrix printer in 1978, followed up with the new and improved MX-80 in 1980. The latter would soon become the best selling printer in the U.S.

Epson launched the world’s first genuine laptop in 1981 with HX-20. This unit was truly portable at the size of 3.5 lb, featuring a full-sized keyboard, two Hitachi CPUs, an LCD screen, built-in rechargeable batteries and support for a storage device and dot-matrix printer. Epson printers continued their dominance into the 2000s, making way for a new line up of products that included digital cameras and imaging solutions.

Epson has been at the forefront of technology for more than 60 years, revolutionizing the printer industry while quietly perfecting one of the most successful brands in history.

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ELSA Drivers

Corporate profile of ELSA Technology Inc.

Originally founded in 1980, ELSA Technology has well over 20 years experience in the data communication and computer graphics solutions markets. A pursuit of perfection, innovative R & D technologies, and a commitment to put the customer first have made ELSA a global leading brand in what has become a very highly competitive market. ELSA has established a number of international branches to further the capabilities of its operations. It currently has subsidiaries in Beijing and Shenzhen China, Seoul, Korea and Taipei, Taiwan – all strategic locations that help the company provide prompt service to its worldwide customers.

ELSA has been setting trends from the very beginning, but most of its success came at the turn of the century. Around this time, the company further cemented itself in the European market as a major player. In 2003, it launched a new line of ELSA graphics cards with the FALCOX series and became the sole distributor of ATI FireGL and FireMV graphics solutions in the Asia Pacific region. The company dabbled into the multimedia market in 2004, releasing a popular line of TV tuner cards called ELSAVISION. In 2007, it unveiled a brand new line of motherboards and workstation barebones. Throughout the 2000s, ELSA has won a number of prestigious industry awards. Some of its most esteemed honors include the 2007 NOVA Channel Award and 2007 Reader’s Best Choice Award at the Zhongguancun Computer Festival’s Top Ten Graphics Card Brands category.

After a successful run with its FireGL Professional Graphics line in the Asia Pacific region, ELSA continues to expand on its global presence with the launch of new ATI and NVIDIA graphics solutions. Using the best design and manufacturing practices, the company never compromises on quality, delivering user-friendly features to enhance the customer experience. ELSA’s stable position in the graphics cards business leads one to believe that it will continue to contribute to the industry for years to come.

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Elitegroup Drivers

Corporate Profile of Elitegroup Computer Systems.

Elitegroup Computer Systems is a Taiwan-based company that specializes in the designing and manufacturing of motherboards. In the business since 1987, it has been a pioneer in the industry, as well as the first motherboard manufacturer in the country to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Aside from Elitegroup motherboards, the company also designs and manufactures barebone machines as well as complete units, such as laptop computers and high-performance server hardware for its worldwide distribution partners. Some of its most notable customers have included industry leading names like Compaq and IBM.

Elitegroup has well over two decades of experience in the motherboard business, forming the building block for many of today’s PCs. Expertise in the market has also made it a major contributor in the IT sector. Throughout the years, it has been able to work closely with some of the biggest chip designers in the PC industry. These partnerships have enabled Elitegroup motherboards and solutions to further the design, development and overall growth of the IT field.

The name Elitegroup rings throughout the industry, as the company has received numerous honors. In fact, it has received more than 150 recognitions and awards worldwide. Some of its most prestigious accolades include making Business Week Magazine’s Information Technology 100 list for two consecutive years. Elitegroup is consistently evolving and adopting advanced design philosophies to its corporate culture. New concepts are helping it simplify the workload while increasing productivity, traits that have become standard practices at its world-class facilities.

A commitment to quality gives Elitegroup the ability to provide the best products and services to its global base of customers. With the help of its successful business partners and highly trained employees across the world, it is safe to assume that Elitegroup will continue to deliver new innovative solutions for many years to come.

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