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Left the computer business; still active in monitor business [16] [17] Vigor Gaming — United States: 2004: 2010: Bankruptcy: VoodooPC — United States: 1991: 2009: Acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2006; brand retired in 2009: VTech — Hong Kong: 1976: 1997: Spun off computer division as PC Partner: Walton Group — Bangladesh: 1977: Unknown ...
Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops. That percentage grew to 32% in 1996, 50% in 2000, 80% in 2007 and 94% in 2011.
Lenovo was an official computer sponsor of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. When asked about Lenovo's brand Yang Yuanqing said, "The Beijing Olympics were very good for brand awareness in countries like the US and Argentina, but not good enough." [205] The NFL has been a Lenovo customer since 2007.
Arm Ltd. (sells designs only) Amazon (AWS Graviton is ARM-based); Apple Inc. (ARM-based CPUs) Broadcom Inc. (ARM-based, e.g. for Raspberry Pi) Fujitsu (its ARM-based CPU used in top supercomputer, still also sells its SPARC-based servers)
ThinkPad is a line of business-oriented laptop and tablet computers produced since 1992. The early models were designed, created and manufactured by International Business Machines (IBM) until it sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005; since 2007, all new ThinkPad models have been branded Lenovo instead [5] and the Chinese manufacturer has continued to develop and sell ThinkPads to the present ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Taiwanese computer and electronics company Not to be confused with APUS Group, ASOS (retailer), Asos, or Esus. ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Logo used since 2022 Headquarters in Taipei Native name 華碩電腦股份有限公司 Romanized name Huáshuò Diànnǎo Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī ...
From the late 1990s to mid-2000s, Acer had computer factories in Europe. The business area was the whole EMEA. In the Netherlands under the name of Acer IMS bv, there were two factories: Acer laptop factory in Den Bosch and Acer and IBM desktop factory in Tilburg. [43] [44] Acer also had facilities in Germany under the name of IMS in Ahrensburg ...
In May 2016, HP introduced a new PC gaming sub-brand known as Omen (reusing trademarks associated with VoodooPC), including gaming laptops and desktops (with the latter offering options such as CPU water cooling and Nvidia's GTX 1080 graphics, and promoted as VR-ready), and other accessories (such as monitors) designed to cater to the market.