DFI
Type
Founded	1981
Headquarters	Hsi-Chih City, Taiwan
Industry	Computer
Products	Motherboards
Revenue	81 million USD[1]
Employees	421
Website	www.dfi.com.tw

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Corporate information

History

DFI was first established in 1981 by Y.C Lu. At that time, DFI began as a graphics card maker with a turnover of 100 cards at that time. In 1992, DFI abandoned its graphics card production and switched to the production of motherboards as the graphics card market was too limited at the time and did not have potential to grow. After 5 years, DFI quickly gained a reputation in the Asia-Pacific region. It peaked as high as one of the top 15 motherboard manufacturers at that time.

In 1998, DFI became the sole design partner for the Intel 810 series chipset, which gained more attention. In 2003, DFI internally reorganised its line into 3 distinct groups. One was the standard OEM line, another is the Infinity budget range, and the last as the LANParty range. The head of the LANParty range was Oskar Wu, who joined DFI after he resigned from Abit after the NForce series.

Currently, as of 2006, DFI is one of the major tier one manufacturers in Taiwan and still continues with cutting edge R&D for their products and company partners such as AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, ATI, VIA, SiS and other companies. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) (Pronunciation: IPA: ) is a major supplier of graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs), graphics cards, and media and communications devices for PCs and game consoles such as the original Xbox and the PlayStation 3. ... ATI Technologies U.L.C., founded in 1985, is a major designer of graphics processing units and video display cards and a wholly owned subsidiary of AMD, as of October 2006. ... VIA Technologies logo VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group. ... The initials SIS may stand for: Secret Intelligence Service, UK intelligence agency, also known as MI6. ...

Location

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Popular products

DFI caters to the enthusiast market with motherboards with advanced overclocking features and a design with ultraviolet-reactive connectors on a black PCB. There are two versions of the LANParty line with the UT similar to the full LANParty gear except for the omission of the PC Transpo bag, UV sleeving kit, FrontX Panel, and less UV-reactant cables. Close-up photo of one side of a motherboard PCB, showing conductive traces, vias and solder points for through-hole components on the opposite side. ...

The LANParty and LANParty UT line of products include:

Socket AM2

• LANParty UT nForce 590 SLI-M2R/G

Socket 939

• LANParty UT Crossfire CFX3200-DR
• LANParty UT Crossfire RDX200 CF-DR
• LANParty UT nForce 4 SLI-DR Expert
• LANParty nForce 4 SLI-DR (UT Version also available)
• LANParty UT nForce 4 SLI-D
• LANParty UT nForce 4 Ultra-D
• LANParty UT nForce 3 Ultra-D

Socket 754

• LANParty UT nForce 3 250 GB

Socket A (462)

• LANParty nForce 2 Ultra B
• LANParty KT400A

Socket T (LGA775)

• LANParty UT Crossfire ICFX3200-T2R/G (To Be Released)
• LANParty UT Intel 915P-T12
• LANParty Intel 925X-T2
• LANParty Intel 875P-T

DFI also has another line primarily aimed to overclockers on a budget. This line is the "Infinity" line, which started with the nForce 2.

AMD lineup

• nForce 4 DAGF
• nForce 4 Ultra Infinity
• nForce 4x Infinity
• nForce 4 SLI Infinity
• RS482 Infinity
• nForce 2 Infinity
• CFX3200-M2/G Infinity (to be released)

Intel lineup

• Intel 975X/G Infinity

DFI is also manufacturing various motherboards for mainstream users. This product line is the "General" line. For those willing to build silent computers, there is a product line called "Silent PC".

DFI-ACP

DFI is also manufacturing motherboards for various industrial purposes. DFI-ACP is a Wintel based platform provider for non-PC business, products range from board level, open frame, add-on boards to barebone systems. Wintel is a term used to describe desktop computers and servers of the type commonly used in homes and businesses since the late 1980s (these are PC compatible computers running a version of Microsoft Windows). ... Shuttle XPC SN25P A barebone computer is a half-assembled platform that consists of a case with a power supply, a motherboard preinstalled into the system case, and a cooling system. ...

References

External links

• DFI website
• DFI USA support site
• DFI-ACP: Industrial Platform Provider for POS, ATM, Gaming, DVR, Embedded Solutions