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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing units (CPUs) and related products for business and consumer markets. Intel was the world's third-largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue in 2024 and has been included in the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue since 2007. It was one of the first companies listed on Nasdaq.
Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation ( ) is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, it develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science, high-performance computing, video games, and mobile and automotive applications. Nvidia has been described as a Big Tech company.
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with significant operations in Austin, Texas. It develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), system-on-chips (SoCs), and high-performance computer components. AMD serves a wide range of business and consumer markets, including personal computers (PCs), gaming, data centers, and embedded systems.
ASUS
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (, , , ;), doing business as Asus (stylized as ASUS), is a Taiwanese multinational computer, phone hardware and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Its products include desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, networking equipment, monitors, Wi-Fi routers, projectors, motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, peripherals, wearables, servers, workstations and tablet PCs. The company is also an original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
Acer
Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards.
ATI Technologies
Canadian technology corporation
Micro-Star International
Taiwanese electronics company
Silicon Graphics
former American company
Gigabyte Technology
Taiwanese electronics company
3dfx Interactive
3dfx Interactive, Inc. was an American computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units, and later, video cards. It was a pioneer in the field from the mid 1990s to 2000.
ASRock
ASRock Inc. () is a Taiwanese manufacturer of motherboards, industrial PCs and home theater PCs (HTPC).
Matrox
Matrox Graphics, Inc. is a producer of video card components and equipment for personal computers and workstations. Based in Dorval, Quebec, Canada, it was founded in 1976 by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić. The name is derived from "Ma" in Matić and "Tro" in Trottier.
Elitegroup Computer Systems
Taiwanese electronics company
Silicon Integrated Systems
company
PowerVR
PowerVR is a division of Imagination Technologies (formerly VideoLogic) that develops hardware and software for 2D and 3D rendering, and for video encoding, decoding, associated image processing and DirectX, OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and OpenCL acceleration. PowerVR also develops AI accelerators called Neural Network Accelerator (NNA).
Biostar Microtech International
Biostar Microtech International Corp. () is a Taiwanese company which designs and manufactures computer hardware products including motherboards, video cards, expansion cards, thermal grease, headphones, home theater PCs, remote controls, desktops, barebone computers, system-on-chip solutions and industrial PCs.
EVGA Corporation
American computer hardware company
Imagination Technologies
British semiconductor and software design company
S3 Graphics
American-based computer graphics company
Transcend Information
Taiwanese manufacturer of memory products
Zotac
ZOTAC Technology Pte. Limited is a computer hardware manufacturer based in Singapore. The company specializes in producing video cards (GPUs), mini PCs, solid-state drives, motherboards, gaming computers and other computer accessories. All its products are manufactured in the PC Partner factories in Batam, Indonesia, and Dongguan City, China.
Sapphire Technology
Hong Kong-based computer hardware company
Supermicro
Super Micro Computer, Inc., doing business as Supermicro, is an American information technology company based in San Jose, California. The company is one of the largest producers of high-performance and high-efficiency servers, while also providing server management software, and storage systems for various markets, including enterprise data centers, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G, and edge computing. Supermicro was founded in 1993, and has manufacturing operations in Silicon Valley, the Netherlands, and in Taiwan at its Science and Technology Park.
Cirrus Logic
company
PNY Technologies
thumb|A 128 MB PNY Attaché USB flash drive (2004) PNY Technologies, Inc., doing business as PNY, is an American manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, memory upgrade modules, portable battery chargers, computer locks, cables, chargers, adapters, and consumer and professional graphics cards. The company is headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey.
Palit Microsystems
Taiwanese computer hardware company
XFX
XFX Technology Inc. is an American computer hardware company that specializes in the manufacturing of video cards, power supplies and motherboards. XFX is headquartered in Ontario, California and is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Pine Technology Holdings Limited (), founded by Michael Chiu. thumb|XFX's previous logo ==Video cards== thumb|An XFX-manufactured Nvidia [[GeForce 8800 GTS video card]]
BFG Technologies
American computer hardware company
Leadtek Research
Leadtek Research, Inc. () is a Taiwanese company, founded in 1986, which focuses on research and development that is specialized in the design and manufacture of graphics cards.
Trident Microsystems
company
Tseng Labs
computer graphics chip maker
Chaintech
Chaintech Technology Corporation (Chinese: 承啟科技股份有限公司), formerly known as Chaintech Computer Co., Ltd. and later Walton Chaintech Corporation, is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer founded in November 1986. Headquartered in New Taipei, the company is historically best known for its motherboards and graphics cards.
XGI Technology
company
Cognex Corporation
American manufacturer of machine vision systems
PowerColor
PowerColor is a Taiwanese graphics card brand established in 1997 by TUL Corporation (撼訊科技), based in New Taipei, Taiwan. PowerColor maintains office locations in a number of countries, including Taiwan, the Netherlands and the United States. The United States branch is located in City of Industry, California and serves the North and Latin American markets. TUL also has another brand, VTX3D, which serves the European market and some Asian markets.
Pinnacle Systems
company
Gainward
Gainward Co., Ltd., is a computer hardware company which has produced video cards since 1984. Taiwan-based TNC Industrial sold the company to Palit Microsystems in 2005, acquiring the Gainward brand and branch Gainward Europe GmbH for $1 million.
Chips and Technologies
company
ArtX
ArtX was a semiconductor design company founded in 1997 by a group of 20 former Silicon Graphics employees, led by executives Wei Yen and David Orton. The company initially sought to develop a high-performance, cost-effective graphics chip for the IBM PC compatible market, competing with established firms such as 3dfx and emerging competitors like Nvidia. ArtX became better known for designing the Flipper graphics chip used in Nintendo's GameCube console. The company was acquired by ATI Technologies in 2000, and its work formed the basis for ATI's Radeon line of GPUs, which continued under AMD
Hercules Computer Technology
American computer peripheral manufacturer
Real3D
thumb|Real3D video card with Intel740 Real3D, Inc. was a maker of arcade graphics boards, a spin-off from Lockheed Martin. The company made several 3D hardware designs that were used by Sega, the most widely used being the graphics hardware in the Sega Model 2 and Model 3 arcade systems. A partnership with Intel and SGI led to the Intel740 graphics card, which was not successful in the market. Rapid changes in the marketplace led to the company being sold to Intel in 1999.
Diamond Multimedia
American company
3Dlabs
3DLABS Inc. Ltd. was a fabless semiconductor company. It was founded by Yavuz Ahıska and Osman Kent in 1994 with headquarters in San Jose, California. It originally developed the GLINT and PERMEDIA high-end graphics chip technology that was used on many of the world's leading computer graphics cards in the CAD and DCC markets, including its own Wildcat and Oxygen cards.
Rendition
company
Club 3D
Dutch company
Galaxy Technology
GALAX Microsystems Limited () is a computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1994 and based in Hong Kong. The company specializes in producing video cards, gaming monitors, solid-state drives, memory modules, computer coolers, and other computer accessories.
Evans & Sutherland
company based in Salt Lake City
Sparkle
Taiwanese computer hardware company
Moore Threads
Chinese fabless semiconductor company
Vivante Corporation
fabless semiconductor company
Hightech Information System
Hong Kong graphics card company
Albatron Technology
Taiwanese computer hardware company
Grass Valley K.K.
Manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software
Silicon Motion
American-Taiwanese electronics technology company
Oak Technology
company
Number Nine Visual Technology
company