ULi
ULi Electronics Incorporated - ULi for short - was a Taiwanese company that developed chipsets .
The company last held a market share of less than one percent and operated fabless . Company headquarters was Taipei .
history
ULi was originally a joint project between the UMC foundry and ALi ( Acer Laboratories Incorporated , a subsidiary of the hardware manufacturer Acer ), which was incorporated as an independent subsidiary of ALi at the end of 2002.
End of 2005, by far the greater announced US competitor NVIDIA 's acquisition of ULi for 52 million US dollars to.
The takeover of Nvidia has now been carried out and all relevant links from the ULi website have been transferred to Nvidia 's.
Products
ULi was primarily known for its chipsets for motherboards , but the company also manufactured PC peripherals, multimedia solutions and microcontrollers . ULi received special attention with the M1695 chipset, which, as a special feature , was able to connect both AGP and PCIe graphics cards at full speed. In the last two years before the takeover by nVidia, ULi was particularly well represented in the market with its Southbridges , which were often used on motherboards with ATI Northbridge (ATI's Southbridges suffered from their poor USB 2.0 performance at this time ).