Palit Microsystems

Palit Microsystems, Ltd.

Native name	同德股份有限公司
Type	Private
Industry	Computer hardware
Founded	1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Founder	Li Shilong (李世隆)
Headquarters	Taipei , Taiwan
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Graphic cards
Number of employees	< 3000 (2006)
Divisions	Gainward
Website	www.palit.com

Graphic card Daytona 64T, based on Trident Microsystems chipset TGUI9680

Palit Microsystems, Ltd. is a Taiwanese-based company, founded in 1988. It is known for exclusive manufacturing of graphic cards on the basis of Nvidia & ATI graphic chipsets. Palit's factories are found in mainland China, while the offices are in Taipei, Taiwan, a logistics center in Hong Kong, China, and branch office in Germany .^[1]

Palit Microsystems runs two major brands, Palit, and Gainward, which target different global markets, and other brands like Daytona, Galaxy (GALAX), Vivkoo, Yuan, KFA2 (Kick Fuckin Ass²)^[2] and XpertVision. It also contract-manufactures graphics cards for other companies. In 2013 Palit Microsystems surpassed ASUSTek, becoming the biggest graphics card vendor by volume.^[3][4] Palit Microsystems' monthly maximum capacity reaches 1,200,000 units.^[1][5] As of 2011 Palit's production share was about at 20–25% of world market of graphics solutions.^[buzzword] In the same time on the Russian market Palit had more than 40%, in Ukraine – about 30%.^[6]

In 2005 Palit Microsystems acquired the Gainward brand, company and branch Gainward Europe GmbH for $1 million of Taiwan-based TNC Industrial.^[7]

See also

• Gainward

References

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