Company:Leadtek

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Short description: Taiwanese computer hardware company
Leadtek Research, Inc.
TypePublic (TSEC: T2465)
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded24 October 1986; 37 years ago (1986-10-24)
HeadquartersNew Taipei, Taiwan
Key people
K.S. Lu (President and Chairman)
ProductsWinFast series of video cards
WinFast series of TV tuners for PCs
NSC 3600 series of video surveillance equipment
Revenue$169.9 million USD (2003)
Number of employees
over 498
Websitewww.leadtek.com/eng

Leadtek Research, Inc. (Chinese: 麗臺科技) is a Taiwanese company, founded in 1986, which focuses on research and development[1] that is specialized in the design and manufacture of graphics cards.

Products

Products in Leadtek's Computer Group include 3D graphics accelerators (of the NVIDIA GeForce line, mainstream and workstation-class). Currently, Leadtek's product lines are covering computer gaming graphics cards, workstation graphics cards, AI software and hardware, AI cloud supercomputing workstations, desktop virtualization Zero Client/Thin Client, smart medical/health care, school research and big data.


For smart medical, amor H2 health band won the 2019 Taiwan Excellence Award and the 2018 APICTA Asia-Pacific Information and Communication Technology Alliance Awards

History

Key dates

  • 1997
    Pioneer of GPS products since 1997 (one of Taiwan’s earliest).[citation needed]
  • 2000
    Leadtek GPS module became “de facto” Smart Antenna.
    module (9531) SiRF Star I GPS module (9520).
  • 2001
    Mini size GPS antenna for PDA application .
    9532 Smart Antenna.
    9540/9542/9543 SS-2 module.
  • 2002
    9543LP module/ 9546 SiRFXtrac module .
    9546 SiRFXtrac module.
    9534 CF card receiver.
  • 2003
    9551 SD card receiver.
    9547 SiRFLoc/ SiRFXtrac module.
    9800 2t host-based module .
    First Bluetooth GPS Receiver 9537-SiRF Star II.
  • 2004
    First GPS receiver (9553)-SiRF Star III chipset.
    First SMD module (9548)-SiRF Star III chipset.
    First tiny Bluetooth GPS Receiver 9553.
    SiRF Star II SMD module (9805).
    First GPS receiver with RDS/TMC function (9815) to European market.
  • 2005
    All-in-one GPS Navigator (9700)-Win CE4.0 platform.
  • 2006
    9101LP/9548SLP/9552LP module (SiRF Star III).
    9805ST/9540G/9121/9122 module (SiRF Star II).
    9500EVK evaluation kit.
    9559X Bluetooth GPS receiver.
  • 2007
    9450 GPS Smart Antenna.
    9569 Bluetooth GPS receiver.
    9750/9752 PND (Personal Navigation Device).
  • 2008
    LR 8M03 LBS Tracker.
  • 2016
    Cooperated with the Canadian Nano Research company to develop “NewClean long effect nano-spray”.
  • 2017
    Leadtek became a certified partner of NVIDIA DLI (Deep Learning Institute) and started AI talent training course.
  • 2019
    Leadtek was awarded " Taiwan i sports (Certificate of Corporate Wellness) " by Sports Administration, Ministry of Education
  • 2020
    H2 Plus Wearable ECG Recorder won the 29th Taiwan Excellence Award (2021)
  • 2021
    Leadtek workstations have been validated by NVIDIA as NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • 2022
    Leadtek has been certified by three international management systems: SGS ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 27017 (cloud service information security) and ISO 27701 (privacy information), providing customers with system information security, cloud security and personal information security.

See also

  • List of companies of Taiwan

References