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Broadcom Drivers

Corporate profile for Broadcom Corp.

Headquartered in Irvin, California, Broadcom Corporation is a world renown technological innovator and global leader in semiconductor solutions for both wired and wireless communications. Broadcom currently holds more than 3,100 U.S. and 1,400 foreign patents. It also has well over 7,600 additional patent applications pending. As one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, it enjoyed revenues of $4.66 billion in 2008 alone.

The company’s portfolio features products that facilitate the delivery of data, voice, video and multimedia content to and throughout the office, home and mobile environment. Specializing in the industry’s most extensive lineup of system-on-a-chip and software solutions, Broadcom is able to consistently appease its customer base of computing, networking equipment, broadband access, digital entertainment and mobile device manufacturers. Some of its most notable clients include fortune 100 to fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Cisco Systems, Dell, IBM, HP and Nintendo to name a few.

The Broadcom product line includes transceiver and processor integrated circuits for wireless LANs and Ethernet, DSL, cable modems, home-based networking devices and mobile phones. The company is also well known for its series of high-speed co-processors. By offloading the intensive workload to a dedicated chip, these solutions are able to greatly increase the speed of tasks that utilize encryption. Broadcom co-processors offer numerous benefits in the field of e-commerce by helping to secure PGP and GPG communications. Other products include audio/video processors for digital video recorders and digital set-top boxes as well as RF receivers and tuners for satellite TV systems. Broadcom’s Bluetooth products range from chipsets and headsets to software solutions for PC and smart phone integration.

Since 1991, Broadcom has been delivering high-quality products to meet the growing demands brought forth by emerging technology. Recently forming partnerships with industry leaders such as Microsoft and AMD, one could assume that Broadcom is poised for long term and sustained growth as they prepare to introduce the world to additional cutting edge solutions.

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Biostar Microtech Drivers

Corporate profile for Biostar Microtech Int’l Corp.

Established in 1986, Biostar Microtech International Corp. is a Taiwan-based manufacturer that specializes in a wide variety of computer products. Its extensive product line ranges from motherboards and video cards to industrial PCs and bare bone computers. Listed on the main floor of the Taiwan Stock Market as a profitable independent company, BioStar develops solutions for entry-level to high-end markets. In fact, many of its products are found to retail for more than $100. This manufacturer is well known as the only company to give end-users the freedom to modify the voltages and frequencies on video card GPUs and memory to enhance performance to their preference. As a leading global provider, although based in Taiwan, BioStar has five regional headquarters in the United States, China and the Netherlands.

In the beginning, Biostar was focused on manufacturing motherboards designed for XT form factor. To meet the evolving demands of market development, the company began producing more integrated solutions, enriching its competence in the design and manufacturing of add-on cards, system and multimedia products. In 1990, Biostar became the first motherboard producer to establish its manufacturing premises in China, a move that was performed to expand its capacity and meet the needs of a growing customer base. Business was bolstering and in 1998, the company’s revenues surpassed 130 million dollars, ranking it among Taiwan’s top 1,000 enterprises.

Biostar took its success into the millennium with a new slate of products. Feature-rich graphics cards and Biostar motherboards ranging from the T-Power to the T-Series have helped the company maintain its position an as industry leader. Now offering support for a range of AMD products, the manufacturer plans to further strengthen its place in the market by introducing more cutting solutions in the near future. Putting an emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction, the sky appears to be the limit for Biostar.

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Aztech Drivers

Corporate profile of Aztech Corp.

Founded in 1986, Aztech Systems provides manufacturing services for the computer peripherals, telecommunications, consumer electronics, networking and healthcare devices industries. Though based in Singapore, the company has support offices located in the United States, Germany, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Aztech’s wholly owned subsidiary, Shiro Corporation, is a profitable spinoff that specializes in a plethora of high demand consumer products, including MP3 and MP4 players, Caller ID phones, DECT phones, VoIP and broadband solutions.

With R&D centers located in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dong Guan and Shenzhen, China, Aztech is able to deliver products of the highest quality to meet global industry standards. These world-class facilities house state of the art manufacturing equipment that allows the company to leverage technologies which meet and exceed evolving market requirements. Coupled with exceptional design capabilities in the PC industry, its specialties in the telecommunications field have resulted in a solid lineup of best breed Aztech modems, broadband routers and a wide variety of wireless products. This company has the facilities and engineering expertise to roll out cutting edge products and services on a consistent basis.

Aztech’s fast rise to success was fueled by an $8.5 million grant issued by the NSTB in1993. That same year, the manufacturer captured 17% of the sound card global market share and ranked in the top three of sound card manufacturers in the world. By 1995, its market share had risen considerably to 37%. Aztech sound cards carried the company through the end of the decade when it began producing modems. By 1998, the company was already in the top 5 list of modem suppliers. Aztech rolled into the millennium on a high note, leveraging technological innovations to introduce an array of products geared towards internet users. Recipient of numerous honors, Aztech is now a global leader in telecommunications and networking solutions for home-based and corporate users alike.

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ATI Drivers

Corporate profile and business brief of ATI Technologies.

ATI Technologies was a global leading developer and distributor of motherboard chipsets and graphics processing units. The manufacturer is perhaps best known for its extensive line of computer graphics chipsets. Some of the most notable products include the Rage and Radeon series, Rage Mobility and the ATI Crossfire. After acquiring ArtX, ATI would also go on to produce console graphics products for the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s X-box 360.

The company was originally founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Incorporated, mainly producing integrated PC graphics cards for manufacturers such as Commodore and IBM. At the dawn of 1987, ATI had evolved into an independent graphics cards retailer, unveiling its popular Wonder graphic card product line that same year. Leveraging the success of its cutting edge products, the company finally went public in 1993, having stock listed on the NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange.

The 1990s were all about innovation. In 1996, ATI introduced the All-in-Wonder product line. This franchise represented the first combination of graphics chips integrated with a TV tuner card as well as the first chip capable of displaying computer graphics on a television set. These ATI graphics cards featured 3D acceleration powered by the company’s second generation of 3D Rage, which was originally launched a few years prior. ATI continued to enjoy market success into the millennium but eventually fell on hard times and merged with AMD in 2006, the same year it officially became defunct.

AMD still sells ATI graphics chipsets as therefore, they utilize the same corporate name. The company has made a number of ATI graphics drivers available for download on its website for Windows Vista and XP, Mac OS X and Linux.

It was certainly a good run for ATI and its line of high-performance products. In the end, the domination by AMD and NVIDIA proved to be too much to compete with, forcing this influential company and several more into less visible roles.

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ASUS Drivers

Corporate profile and brief business description of ASUS Computer Inc.

Based in Taiwan, ASUS Computer Incorporated is a prominent company that manufactures a wide range of computers and computer components. Its massive portfolio consists of motherboards, optical drives, graphics cards, network servers, notebooks and mobile phones just to name a few. The company produces components for a who’s who list of manufacturers that include Apple, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, HP and Palm Inc. It also makes a number of components for Sony’s Playstation 2 game console. This company’s name is one that rings throughout the industry as approximately 33% of all desktops sold in 2007 where integrated with an ASUS motherboard.

ASUS was founded in 1989 by four computer engineers who worked for Acer. In the early 1990s, the company formed a profitable relationship that would inevitably help it to achieve global success. At the time, Taiwan manufacturers were not the motherboard leaders in the computer hardware market they have become today. Intel was stomped after finding that its 486 motherboard did not function as intended. To their surprise, ASUS had designed a 486 prototype, one they took to Intel’s Taiwan lab for testing. Intel found that the ASUS motherboard worked perfectly, a discovery that lead to an informal partnership between the two entities. ASUS has since become a major supporter of Intel’s Common Building Block initiatives and has the luxury to obtain Intel engineering samples before the competition.

ASUS has garnered much recognition during its tenor in the computer hardware business. In 2007, the manufacturer was recognized by Oekom Research as a “Highly environmental-friendly company” in the computers and peripherals market. In addition, ASUS was honored with numerous EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) Gold Awards for its product line of N-Series notebooks. The company has a regular spot in Asia Top 10 IT Companies and Business InfoTech 100 rankings. Boasting an estimated $1.324 billion in total brand value as of 2008, ASUS is showing no signs of slowing down soon.

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