List of computer hardware manufacturers

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Current notable computer hardware manufacturers:

Cases[]

List of computer case manufacturers:

Rack-mount computer cases[]

Laptop computer cases[]

Motherboards[]

Top motherboard manufacturers:

List of motherboard manufacturers:

  • Acer
  • ACube Systems
  • Albatron
  • AMAX Information Technologies
  • AOpen
  • Chassis Plans
  • DFI (industrial motherboards), stopped producing LanParty motherboards in 2009
  • ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems)
  • EPoX (partially defunct)
  • First International Computer
  • Foxconn
  • Fujitsu[1]
  • Gumstix
  • Intel (NUC and server motherboards)
  • Lanner Inc (industrial motherboards)
  • Leadtek
  • Lite-On
  • NZXT
  • PNY Technologies
  • Powercolor
  • Sapphire Technology
  • Shuttle Inc.
  • Simmtronics
  • Supermicro
  • Tyan
  • VIA Technologies
  • Vigor Gaming
  • ZOTAC

Defunct:

Chipsets for motherboards[]

  • AMD
  • Redpine Signals
  • Intel
  • Nvidia
  • ServerWorks
  • Silicon Integrated Systems
  • VIA Technologies

Central processing units (CPUs)[]

Note: most of these companies only make designs, and do not manufacture their own designs.

Top x86 CPU manufacturers:

  • AMD
  • Intel

List of CPU manufacturers (most of the companies sell ARM-based CPUs, assumed if nothing else stated):

  • Arm Ltd. (sells designs only)
  • Apple Inc. (ARM-based CPUs)
  • Broadcom Inc. (ARM-based, e.g. for Raspberry Pi)
  • Fujitsu (its ARM-based CPU used in top supercomputer, still also sells its SPARC-based servers)
  • Hitachi (its own designs and ARM)
  • Hygon (x86-based)
  • HiSilicon (acquired by Huawei), stopped making its ARM-based design
  • IBM (now only designs two architectures)
  • Ingenic Semiconductor (MIPS-based)
  • Marvell (its ThunderX3 ARM-based)
  • MCST (its own designs and SPARC)
  • MediaTek (ARM chips, and MIPS chips)[2]
  • Nvidia (sells ARM-based, and bought the ARM company)
  • Qualcomm (ARM-based)
  • Rockchip (ARM-based)
  • Amlogic (ARM-based)
  • Allwinner (ARM-based)
  • Samsung (ARM-based)
  • SiFive (RISC-V-based, e.g. HiFive Unleashed)
  • Texas Instruments (its own designs and ARM)
  • Via (formerly Centaur Technology division), its own x86-based design
  • (previously MIPS Technologies), licenses MIPS CPU design
  • Zhaoxin (its own x86 design based on Via's)

Acquired or defunct:

  • Cyrix (its own x86-based)
  • Freescale (acquired by NXP Semiconductors), PowerPC-based
  • Motorola (its own designs)
  • NexGen (acquired by AMD)
  • Oracle (previously Sun Microsystems), both made SPARC CPUs, but Oracle laid off that department
  • Rise Technology
  • SigmaTel (acquired by Freescale)
  • Tilera (its own design)
  • Transmeta (its own x86-based)
  • WinChip

Hard disk drives (HDDs)[]

Internal[]

List of current hard disk drive manufacturers:

  • Seagate Technology
  • Toshiba
  • Western Digital

External[]

Note: the HDDs internal to these devices are manufactured only by the internal HDD manufacturers listed above.

List of external hard disk drive manufacturers:

  • ADATA
  • Buffalo Technology
  • Freecom
  • G-Technology brand of Western Digital
  • Hyundai
  • IoSafe-Hard drive safes
  • LaCie (brand of Seagate)
  • LG
  • Maxtor (brand of Seagate)
  • Promise Technology
  • Samsung
  • Seagate Technology
  • Silicon Power
  • Sony
  • Toshiba
  • Transcend Information
  • TrekStor
  • Verbatim Corporation
  • Western Digital

Drive controller and RAID cards[]

Solid-state drives (SSDs)[]

Many companies manufacture SSDs but only six companies actually manufacture the Nand Flash devices[4] that are the storage element in most SSDs.

Optical disc drives (ODDs)[]

List of optical disc drive manufacturers:

Fans[]

Fan controllers[]

Computer cooling systems[]

List of computer cooling system manufacturers:

Non-refillable liquid cooling (AiO)[]

List of non-refillable liquid cooling manufacturers:

  • Cooler Master "Seidon Series"
  • Corsair "H-Series"
  • Deepcool "CAPTAIN Series" "MAELSTROM Series"
  • EKWB
  • EVGA Corporation
  • Fractal Design "Kelvin Series"
  • Lian Li
  • NZXT "Kraken Series"
  • SilverStone Technology "Tundra Series"
  • Thermaltake "Water2.0 Series"
  • Zalman "SKADI series" "Reserator 3 Max" "LQ series" "Reserator 3 Max Dual"
  • Zotac (stopped producing water coolers)

Refillable liquid cooling kits[]

List of refillable liquid cooling kits manufacturers:

Water block[]

List of water block manufacturers:

Video-card cooling[]

List of graphics card cooling manufacturers:

Computer monitors[]

List of companies that are actively manufacturing and selling computer monitors:

  • Alienware
  • Apple
  • Acer
  • AOC Monitors
  • Asus
  • AOpen
  • BenQ
  • Chassis Plans
  • Dell
  • Eizo
  • Fujitsu
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Iiyama (company)
  • Gateway
  • HannStar
  • Lenovo
  • LG
  • MSI
  • NEC
  • Philips
  • Planar Systems
  • Samsung
  • Sharp
  • Sony
  • Tatung Company
  • ViewSonic

Video cards (graphics cards)[]

List of video card manufacturers:

Graphics processing units (GPUs)[]

  • Advanced Micro Devices
  • ARM Holdings (Mali GPUs, first designed by acquired Falanx)
  • ATI Technologies (Acquired by Advanced Micro Devices)
  • Broadcom Limited
  • Imagination Technologies (PowerVR)
  • Intel
  • Matrox
  • Nvidia
  • Qualcomm
  • Via (S3 Graphics division)
  • Vivante Corporation
  • ZiiLABS
  • Tseng Labs – (acquired by ATI)
  • XGI
  • 3dfx Interactive (Bankrupt)

Keyboards[]

List of keyboard manufacturers:

Mouse[]

List of mouse manufacturers:

Mouse pads[]

List of mouse pad manufacturers:

  • A4Tech
  • Acer
  • Alienware
  • Corsair
  • Logitech
  • Razer
  • SteelSeries
  • Targus
  • Trust
  • Verbatim Corporation

Joysticks[]

List of Joystick manufacturers:

Speakers[]

List of computer speaker manufacturers:

  • Altec Lansing
  • AOpen (stopped making speakers)
  • Auzentech
  • Behringer
  • Bose Corporation
  • Cemex
  • Cerwin-Vega
  • Corsair
  • Creative Technology
  • Edifier
  • General Electric
  • Gigabyte Technology
  • Hama Photo
  • Harman International Industries (acquisition)
(division: Harman Kardon, JBL)
  • Hercules
  • IBall
  • Intex
  • Klipsch
  • Logic
  • Logitech
  • M-Audio
  • MartinLogan
  • Philips
  • Plantronics (acquisitions)
  • Razer
  • Shuttle Inc.
  • Sonodyne
  • Sony
  • SteelSeries
  • Teufel
  • Trust
  • Yamaha

Modems[]

List of modem manufacturers:

Network interface cards (NICs)[]

List of network card manufacturers:

Chipsets for network cards[]

  • ASIX
  • Atheros
  • Aquantia
  • Broadcom
  • Emulex
  • Fujitsu
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Intel
  • LSI Corporation
  • Nvidia
  • Marvell Technology Group
  • Mellanox
  • Proxim
  • Qlogic
  • Qualcomm
  • Ralink
  • Realtek
  • Solarflare
  • VIA Technologies
  • Winbond

There are a number of other companies (AMD, Microchip, Altera, etc) making specialized chipsets as part of other ICs, and they are not often found in PC hardware (laptop, desktop or server). There are also a number of now defunct companies (like 3com, DEC, SGI) that produced network related chipsets for us in general computers.

Power supply units (PSUs)[]

List of power supply unit (PSU) manufacturers:

Random-access memory (RAM) modules[]

Note that the actual memory chips are manufactured by a small number of DRAM manufacturers. List of memory module manufacturers:

Random-access memory (RAM) chips[]

List of current DRAM manufacturers:[5]

  • Micron Technology
  • Samsung Semiconductor
  • SK hynix
  • ChangXin Memory Technologies[6][7]
  • Nanya Technology
  • Powerchip Semiconductor (as a foundry)
  • Winbond (specialty and mobile DRAM)

List of former or defunct DRAM manufacturers:

  • NEC, Hitachi, later Elpida Memory (went bankrupt, bought by Micron)
  • Mitsubishi, later Elpida
  • Siemens, spun off Infineon Technologies, spun off Qimonda (went bankrupt, IP bought by Micron and others[7])
  • Inotera, bought by Micron
  • Intel (Intel 1103)
  • Mostek
  • Mosel Vitelic Inc (ProMOS Technologies spun off from Mosel Vitelic)
  • Toshiba (DRAM business sold to Micron)[8][9]
  • Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation

List of fabless DRAM companies:

  • Rambus

In addition, other semiconductor manufacturers include SRAM or eDRAM embedded in larger chips.

Headphones[]

List of headphone manufacturers:

Image scanners[]

List of image scanner manufacturers:

  • Brother
  • Canon
  • Fujitsu
  • Kodak
  • Lexmark
  • Microtek
  • Mustek Systems
  • Panasonic
  • Plustek
  • Ricoh
  • Seiko Epson
  • Umax
  • Visioneer
  • XEROX

Sound cards[]

List of sound card manufacturers:

  • Ad Lib, Inc.
  • Gravis
  • Analog Devices
  • Asus
  • Aureal Semiconductor
  • Auzentech
  • C-Media
  • Conrad
  • Creative Technology
  • Diamond Multimedia
  • Avid Audio
  • E-MU Systems
  • Ensoniq
  • ESS Technology
  • Focusrite
  • Hercules
  • HT Omega
  • Korg
  • Lexicon
  • M-Audio
  • MOTU
  • PreSonus
  • Razer
  • Realtek
  • Roland
  • Speedlink
  • StarTech.com
  • Silicon Integrated Systems
  • TerraTec
  • Turtle Beach
  • VIA Technologies
  • Yamaha

TV tuner cards[]

List of TV tuner card manufacturers:

USB flash drives[]

List of USB flash drive manufacturers:

Webcams[]

List of webcam manufacturers:

  • A4Tech
  • Behavior Tech Computer
  • Canon
  • Creative Technology
  • D-Link
  • FaceVsion
  • General Electric
  • Hama Photo
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • iMicro
  • Intel
  • Labtec
  • Lenovo
  • Logitech
  • Kodak
  • Microsoft
  • Philips
  • Samsung
  • Silicon Power
  • Trust
  • TP-Link

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Industrial Mainboards – Fujitsu CEMEA&I". www.fujitsu.com. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  2. ^ "Wave Computing Signs New License Agreement with MediaTek". WAVE Computing. 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  3. ^ a b c d "Global RAID Cards Market 2018 – Production, Sales, Supply, Demand, Cost Structure, Manufacturers, Shares, Forecast to 2025". IntenseResearch. January 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  4. ^ "NAND flash market share 2019". Statista.
  5. ^ https://www.statista.com/statistics/271726/global-market-share-held-by-dram-chip-vendors-since-2010/
  6. ^ "First China-Built DRAM Chip Reaches Market - Caixin Global". www.caixinglobal.com.
  7. ^ a b Shilov, Anton. "ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is Ramping up Chinese DRAM Using Qimonda IP". www.anandtech.com.
  8. ^ https://www.eetimes.com/winbond-pulls-designers-out-of-toshiba-on-word-of-dram-divestiture/
  9. ^ https://www.eetimes.com/toshiba-exits-dram-market-sells-fab-to-micron/
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