Asus Company History

Asus Company History - Asus story began in 1989, when four computer engineers, namely Wayne Hsieh, Ted Hsu, MT Liao and TH Tung intends to establish a new company to promote Taiwan's IT industry.

The name they chose was "Pegasus" is taken from the term for mythical creatures of Greek origin. In its development, the name was shortened to "Asus" in order to appear at the beginning of the sequence corresponding alphabet.

In contrast to the present, at that Asus is based in a small apartment in Taipei, Taiwan, is engaged in computer consulting and hardware manufactures are not homemade.

However, after successfully making and selling 486 motherboard for Intel processors at the end of the decade of the 80s, the company began to concentrate on hardware construction.

On his way, companies are starting to go public in 2005 it grew bigger. Asus motherboard installed in 29.2% of desktop computers sold during the year 2009.

In the same year Asus posted revenues worth USD21, 2 billion. To streamline the company's performance, in 2007 Asus divide themselves into three different companies, namely Pegatron (focusing on the production of PC components and devices OEM), Unihan (non-PC device manufacturers), and Asus itself is concentrating on the production of notebook and computer systems intact.

Asus Products

For decades in the business of computer hardware, Asus has spawned a wide range of products. Currently there are dozens of types of motherboards available.

Not to mention if you count the types of products. Overall, Asus makes motherboards, graphics cards, notebooks, netbooks, servers and workstations, networking products, monitors, multimedia products, optical storage, peripherals, and computer accessories.

Lately, Asus diligently to make the mobile device innovation. In these fields, one of the most iconic products is Asus Eee PC, a portable computer with a smaller physical size and lighter weight than regular notebook-called "netbook".

The term "netbook" itself has previously been used by one manufacturer of mobile devices from the United States. However, in its development, it became the common term and commonly used to refer to a class of mobile devices Asus Eee PC was first introduced in 2007. Shortly after the appearance of the Eee PC, many other manufacturers follow asus and produce a similar device.

Development of computer hardware made by Asus also continue to go hand in hand with the development of mobile devices. In 2006, Asus introduced a motherboard product series "Republic of Gamers" are specifically intended for computer game players.

Line of motherboards is equipped with various features of the Asus when it's best, such as support for multi-GPU configuration, SupremeFX soundcard, heatpipe cooling system, and higher overclocking capability.

Republic of Gamers motherboard series is the latest Rampage III Black Edition with Intel X58 chipset that supports terkencang desktop processors today. Asus motherboard also stay on top the mainstream and provide an appropriate platform for modern CPUs, including the Sandy Bridge processor series from Intel.

In addition to the motherboard, one type of hardware component is a specialized graphics card Asus. In the mid-1990s, the company introduced a graphics card series based graphics chip from ATI 3D Rage.

After that, came the Asus graphics card that uses graphics chips from other manufacturers, namely NVIDIA, which is beginning to rise at the time. Asus graphics card line continues to the present. Other products too, such as notebooks, networking peripherals, optical drive, up to netbooks and smart phones were developed by Asus.

Until now, Asus continues to make a graphics card with ATI chipset (AMD) and NVIDIA. Some special features, such as voltage tweak that allows modification of the voltage and HSF DirectCU which has better heat transfer abilities dar regular HSF, also applied in the ranks of high-end graphics card made by this manufacturer. Asus also makes some of the graphics card "special edition", are like Mars and Ares series are equipped with a graphics chip terkencang of its time.