Compal
Compal
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1984 |
Seat | Neihu , Taipei / Taiwan |
Number of employees | 30,667 ( June 2006 ) |
Branch | Hardware manufacturer |
Website | www.compal.com |
Compal ( Chinese 仁寶 電腦 股份有限公司 , Chinese 仁寶 電腦 for short , Pinyin Rén Bǎo Diànnǎo ) is a Taiwanese contract manufacturer founded in 1984 . The company's headquarters are in Taipei . The company's shares are traded on the Taipei Stock Exchange under the code 2324.
Compal Electronics
Compal Electronics is a manufacturer of mobile computers and one of the ten largest Taiwanese companies. Compal produced u. a. the PowerBook G4 15.4 inch and the 17 inch PowerBook for the Californian computer manufacturer Apple as well as notebooks from Hewlett-Packard.
Since November 2015 Compal has been the main supplier of the high-speed cable router modem Connect-Box Compal CH7465LG for the German internet and cable television operator Unitymedia . The Connect-Box is also used at UPC Austria and UPC Switzerland .
Compal also produces the notebook models
- Compal AL55
- Compal CL50 (Similar to CL56. But still has a slot for SD cards.)
- Compal CL51 (Was sold as Acer Travelmate 290. Graphics function is integrated in the Intel 855GM chipset)
- Compal CL55 (Was sold as Acer Travelmate 290E. Similar to CL51 but without FireWire and S-Video. Chipset Intel 852GM)
- Compal CL56 (Was sold as Acer Travelmate 290D and Extensa 290x. Chipset Intel 855M. Proprietary graphics card ATI Radeon 9200 or 9700)
- Compal CY26
- Compal GL30
- Compal GL31
- Compal EL80
- Compal EL81
- Compal FL90
- Compal IFL90
- Compal IFL91
- Compal JHL90
- Compal JHL91
Main boards:
- Compal LA-1281 (Was built into Acer Aspire 1200)
- Compal LA-1682 (Was built into Dell Inpiron 5150)
- Compal LA-1684 (Was built into Dell Inpiron 1150)
- Compal LA-1691 (Was built into Compaq_Evo N600c)
- Compal LA-1701 Release 1.0 (Was built into Compaq nx7000)
- Compal LA-1701 Release 2.0 (Was built into Compaq nx7010)
- Compal LA-1881 (Was built into Acer Travelmate 290 and 290E (CL51) and Extensa 2900. All with Intel graphics chip)
- Compal LA-1901 REV. A00 (Was built into Dell Inpiron 8600)
- Compal LA-1971 (Was built into Lenovo A500G - E600)
- Compal LA-2171 (Was built into Dell Inpiron 9300)
- Compal LA-2231 (Was built into Acer TravelMate 290D (CL56) and Extensa 2900. Both for graphics card from ATI)
- Compal LA-2362 (Was built into Acer Aspire 3500)
- Compal LA-2411 (Was built into Acer TravelMate 2200)
- Compal LA-2921P Rev. 4.0 (Was built into Acer TravelMate 4230, 4260, 4280)
- Compal LA-3081P (Was built into Acer Aspire 3690)
- Compal LA-3151P (Was built into Acer Aspire 3100)
- Compal LA-3211P (Was built into Acer Aspire 3650 and TravelMate 2450)
- Compal LA-3551P (Was built into Acer Aspire 5315, 5720, 7720)
- Compal LA-3581 (Was built into Acer Aspire 5220, 5520, 7220, 7520)
- Compal LA-4101P (Was built into HP CQ40)
- Compal LA-4031 (Was built into Compaq PRESARIO C700)
- Compal LA-4201P (Was built into Acer Aspire 4330, 4730, 4930G)
- Compal LA-4851P (Was built into Acer Emachines E525)
- Compal LS-2766P (Was built into Acer Aspire 5500)
which can be found under various brands (see individual notebook model ).
Compal also manufactures PDAs. E.g. the Palmax z720. The device should be identical to a PDA from Toshiba. It is not sold in German-speaking countries.
Compal manufactured the following PDA models, among others:
- Compal PD-95
- Compal PD-96
- Compal PD-131
- Compal PD-300
- Compal PD-500
- Compal PD-500C
- Compal PD-600
- Compal PD-600C
- Compal PD-1000
- Compal PD-1100
Compal also makes monitors.
Compal Communications Inc.
The Compal subsidiary Compal Communications Inc. (short Chinese 華寶通訊 , CCI) is a major manufacturer of mobile phones . The phones are manufactured on the ODM basis, which means that these cell phones are also sold under other brand names. In 2006, CCI produced 68.8 million cell phones and was the largest cell phone ODM in the world. The biggest customer by far was Motorola .
Web links
- http://www.compal.com/
- http://www.compal.com/CompalContent.aspx?MenuID=news&MenuItemNo=13&NewsTypeNo=3&NewsNo=9&Lang=en-us
- http://www.bikertech.de/html/pda_compal.html More information about the Palmax z720 at bikertech.de
- % 3A2324 Google Finance via Compal