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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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AOpen Drivers

Corporate profile and brief business description of AOpen Corp.

Originally established in 1996, AOpen is a global leading electronics manufacturer that specializes in computers and computer components. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, the company produces a rich line of products that range from motherboards to optical disk drives. As a subsidiary of Acer, it also manufactures a nice variety of input devices. The primary focus of AOpen focus is to deliver IT solutions based on energy-efficient standards.

AOpen is perhaps best known for its MoDT (Mobile on Desktop), which was first launched in 2004. MoDT is a solution that incorporates Intel’s Pentium M platform on traditional desktop motherboards. Since the Pentium 4 and several other NetBurst processors proved to be less energy efficient at this time, a number of manufacturers created desktop motherboards for the popular mobile Pentium M platform, with AOpen being one of the very first. AOpen MoDT modules offer all the functionality of traditional computers while consuming far less energy at a faction of the cost.

In the summer of 2007, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) laid out a challenge to PC manufacturers with stricter rules for achieving Energy Star qualification. The EPA has goals of attaining 40% compliancy by 2010 and 80% by 2014. While this is a demanding and time strenuous request, AOpen is more than up for the challenge.

From the same labs that birthed AOpen’s MoDT solutions in 2004, the company has stepped up into a leadership role, going above and beyond industry standards. The manufacturer is consistently scoring in high customer satisfaction, due in large part to its open architecture and open implementation development philosophies that place a strong emphasis on adaptability and compatibility. Going to great lengths to help its partners sustain business continuity, the company has a dedicated staff for upgrading and replacing parts as well as a team committed to the continuous evolution of AOpen MoDT systems.

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Alliance Semiconductor Corporation Drivers

Company profile and brief description of Alliance Semiconductor Corp.

Originally established in 1985, Alliance Semiconductor Corporation is a company that designs and manufactures memory and memory-intensive logic products. Alliance Semiconductor also spent a portion of their history selling video chipsets for personal computers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Alliance Semiconductor has garnered a worldwide reach with state of the art design centers in Santa Clara as well as Bangalore and Hyderabad, India.

Over the years, Alliance Semiconductor has been able to remain afloat in the market with an extensive portfolio of products and significant market demand for their ProMotion line. The Alliance Semiconductor ProMotion product line consists of various types of RAM that include DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) and PSRAM (Pseudo SRAM) as well as embedded memory, Flash memory and logic solutions. The company no longer produces graphics controllers for video card and OEM computer system vendors, however, they have made a set of generic drivers available to the public, a move that was done to show courtesy to its loyal vendors. While these Alliance Semiconductor ProMotion drivers can be obtained from the company website, the manufacturer is reminding customers that the drivers are not updated or otherwise supported in anyway.

In the beginning of 2005, Alliance Semiconductor made it a priority to transition its focus from being a company targeting the semiconductor market and investing in emerging entities to one dedicated to maximizing return to its shareholders. Now focused on managing its short-term investments, Alliance states that the transformation is complete. Always utilizing the best business practices, in July 2007 the company paid out a special cash dividend of $3.75 per share to its shareholders along with an additional $0.25 per share in April of 2008. As of now, the Alliance Semiconductor Board of Directors is committed to evaluating a number of alternatives to better determine the company’s direction for the future.

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