Leadtek Research, Inc.
TypePublic (TSEC: T2465)
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded24 October 1986 (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).
  • 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

References

  1. "Leadtek Research Inc". noteboox.de.
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