Sapphire Technology
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Native name | 藍寶科技 |
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| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | |
| Products | Motherboards Graphics cards |
Number of employees | 105+ (2018) |
| Website | www |
Sapphire Technology Limited (Chinese: 藍寶科技) is a Hong Kong-based technology company, founded in 2001, which produces graphics cards for personal computers and workstations, motherboards, TV tuner cards, digital audio players[1] and LCDTVs[2]
Sapphire's products are based on AMD graphics processing units, and both AMD (ATI) and Intel motherboard chipset technology. The company is the largest supplier of AMD-based video cards in the world.[3][4]
Sapphire was the first company to release a video card with a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connector.[5]
Sapphire was the first company to release a video card having clock speed of 1000 MHz (1 GHz) with the release of the Sapphire Atomic Edition HD 4890.
Manufacturing facilities[edit]
As of 2007, Sapphire has two ISO 9001 and ISO 14001-certified manufacturing facilities in Dongguan, China, which have a monthly production capacity of 1.8 million video cards.[4] The manufacturing facility had an area of about 250,000 m2 used by 16 independent production lines as of May 2005.
Manufacturing process[edit]
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Sapphire buys printed circuit boards (PCB) from an external contractor, but they place components on the PCB and reflow them in their own factories.[6] AMD GPUs have historically been used in their products.
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ SapphireTech.com - SAPPHIRE - Contact Us
- ^ "TGDaily - Sapphire joins the 2160p LCD TV party -".
- ^ 'Sapphire, ATI's 100% partner', at Digital-Daily.com
- ^ a b 'Welcome to the SAPPHIRE Family' at Sapphiretech.com
- ^ "'Sapphire Releases World's First Graphics Card with HDMI' at X-bit labs". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
- ^ "Sapphire Factory Tour Review". TechPowerUp.
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