Micro-Star International

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Micro-Star International Co. Ltd.

logo
legal form Co. Ltd.
founding 1986
Seat Taiwan
management Xiang Xu
Number of employees 12,500 (2018)
sales approx. 3.2 billion euros (2017)
Branch Computer hardware
Website http://de.msi.com/

Micro-Star International ( MSI ) ( Chinese  微星 科技 , Pinyin Wéi Xīng Kējì  - "Tiny Star"), a manufacturer of computer hardware, was founded in August 1986 in Taiwan . The company's headquarters are located in the Zhonghe District of New Taipei City .

Products

MSI is known to end users as a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards for PCs , but also offers a wide range of products in the field of computer accessories, complete systems and notebooks .

MSI's main business areas are:

  • Notebooks
  • All-in-one PCs
  • Graphics cards
  • Motherboards
  • multimedia
  • Desktop
  • IPC
  • communication

In Germany, the brand name Microstar belongs to the company Medion , which also purchases products - mainly mainboards and graphics cards - from MSI.

In June 2012, at the Taiwanese IT trade fair Computex in Taipei , MSI presented its first slider ultrabook under the name Slider S20, which, thanks to its touchscreen , can also be used as a tablet in conjunction with slider technology. The device, which was equipped with an 11.6-inch display, had a resolution of 1,366 × 768 pixels.

Wink

Under the name Winki , a Linux system is preinstalled on a special flash memory on some MSI mainboards , which is intended to provide a compact, virus-safe and fast-starting system for basic tasks such as surfing the Internet.

Key figures

The company employs around 12,500 people in 23 countries worldwide and has plants in China and Taiwan. Sales in 2016 totaled around 3.4 billion .

Individual evidence

  1. Brief overview of MSI at finance.google.com , accessed December 15, 2008
  2. Ultrabook with slider technology , golem, accessed June 6, 2012
  3. MSI Slider Ultrabook with 11.6 ″ display ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , t3n (video), accessed June 6, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / t3n.de
  4. MSI Germany. Retrieved on August 18, 2019 (German).

Web links

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