Sapphire Technology Limited () is a

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–based technology company, founded in 2001, which produces

graphics card A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a displa ...

s for

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s and

workstation A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or computational science, scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating syste ...

motherboard A motherboard, also called a mainboard, a system board, a logic board, and informally a mobo (see #Nomenclature, "Nomenclature" section), is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It ho ...

TV tuner card A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the digital ...

digital audio player A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files. Normally they refer to small, battery-powered devices ...

s and LCDTVs Sapphire's products are based on

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graphics processing unit A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal ...

s, and both

( ATI) and

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technology. The company is the largest supplier of

-based video cards in the world.'Welcome to the SAPPHIRE Family' at Sapphiretech.com
/ref> Sapphire was the first company to release a video card with a high definition multimedia interface (

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary digital interface used to transmit high-quality video and audio signals between devices. It is commonly used to connect devices such as televisions, computer monitors, projectors, gam ...

) connector. Sapphire was the first company to release a video card having

clock speed Clock rate or clock speed in computing typically refers to the frequency at which the clock generator of a processor can generate pulses used to synchronize the operations of its components. It is used as an indicator of the processor's ...

of 1000 MHz (1 GHz) with the release of the Sapphire Atomic Edition HD 4890.

Manufacturing facilities

As of 2007, Sapphire has two

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and

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-certified manufacturing facilities in Dongguan, China, which have a monthly production capacity of 1.8 million video cards. The manufacturing facility had an area of about 250,000 m² used by 16 independent production lines as of May 2005.

Manufacturing process

Sapphire buys

printed circuit board A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a Lamination, laminated sandwich structure of electrical conduction, conductive and Insulator (electricity), insulating layers, each with a pattern of traces, planes ...

s (PCB) from an external contractor, but they place components on the PCB and reflow them in their own factories.

GPUs have historically been used in their products.

Gallery

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References

External links

*{{official website, http://www.sapphiretech.com/ 2001 establishments in Hong Kong Computer hardware companies Computer systems companies Graphics hardware companies Motherboard companies Electronics companies of Hong Kong Hong Kong brands

Manufacturing facilities

Manufacturing process

Gallery

See also

References

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