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Encyclopedia > Chaintech
A Chaintech AV-710 sound card based on the VIA Envy chipset
A Chaintech AV-710 sound card based on the VIA Envy chipset

Chaintech Computer Co. Ltd., founded in November 1986, is an important Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer. The company officially renamed itself as Walton Chaintech Corporation in October 2005. Chaintech employs approximately 1,100 people all over the world. It is best known for manufacturing a wide range of value and performance graphics cards and motherboards, although it also produces sound cards, as well as modems and new added memory module products. Besides the company's Taipei headquarters in Taiwan, Chaintech has eight branch offices in different countries and regions: Hong-Kong, Beijing and Shenzhen (China), Korea, Sydney (Australia), California (United States), Paris (France) and in Moscow (Russia). Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1172 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Sound card User:Berkut VIA Envy Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1172 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Sound card User:Berkut VIA Envy Categories: GFDL images ... A sound card based on VIA Envy24 HT-S chip The VIA Envy24 audio chipset series delivers some of the best sound quality available for personal computers. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the history, geography, and people of the island known as Taiwan. ... Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer, including the digital circuitry, as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware. ... A graphics/video/display card/board/adapter is a computer component designed to convert the logical representation of visual information into a signal that can be used as input for a display medium. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under control of computer programs. ... A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analogue carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ... Memory module is a broad term, and could refer to these specific types of memory module: Dual in-line package memory TransFlash Memory Module SIPP memory, Single In-line Pin Package memory SIMM, a Single Inline Memory Module DIMM, Dual Inline Memory Module Rambus memory modules are a subset of...


Recently (8/2006) Chaintech has chosen to exit the motherboard business and focus more on (the much more profitable) NAND flash memory. The company focuses on producing enthusiast computer parts but with regard to motherboards never ascended beyond a tier 2 manufacturer.


External links

  • Official website
  • Official US website

News of motherboard phase out

  • [1] xbitlabs.com news link

  Results from FactBites:
 
[H] Enthusiast - Chaintech Zenith 7NJS Review (1371 words)
Having established themselves as a formidable player in the graphics card market, Chaintech was looking to build a name for themselves as a high-performance motherboard vendor.
Perhaps due in part to the lack of room on the PCB, Chaintech engineers have decided to position the ATX power header in a small gap between the panel and a row of capacitors alongside the processor socket.
Chaintech has opted to position the remaining audio ports on separate brackets to keep the rear-panel clean and easily accessible.
Overclocker Cafe - Chaintech Reloaded (443 words)
Chaintech has been around for a good while now, since 1986 to be exact.
Chaintech has decided it wants to be the top dog on the street and has shifted resources around to be just that.
Chaintech is also putting a lot of attention on their top shelf products to try and wrest the performance crown from the more mainstream manufacturers.
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