Palit Microsystems
Taiwanese computer hardware company
Palit Microsystems, Ltd. is a Taiwanese computer hardware company, founded in 1988. It is known for exclusive manufacturing of graphic cards on the basis of Nvidia and ATI graphic chipsets. Palit's factories are found in mainland China, while the offices are in Taipei, a logistics center in Hong Kong, and branch office in Germany.
Palit Microsystems runs two major brands, Palit, and Gainward, which target different global markets, and other brands like Daytona, Galaxy (GALAX), Vivkoo, Yuan, KFA2 (Kick Fuckin Ass²), and XpertVision. It also contract-manufactures graphics cards for other companies. In 2013 Palit Microsystems surpassed ASUSTek, becoming the biggest graphics card vendor by volume. Palit Microsystems' monthly maximum capacity reaches 1,200,000 units. As of 2011 Palit's production share was about at 20–25% of world market of graphics solutions. In the same time on , ie Russian market Pal,it had more than 40%, in Ukraine – about 30%.
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