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Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Traditional Chinese: 瑞昱半導體股份有限公司), a fabless IC design house situated in the Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, was founded in October 1987, and subsequently approved as a listed company on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1998. As of March 31, 2005, Realtek employed 970 people, among whom more than 700 were of research and development expertise. Image File history File links Realtek_logo. ...
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The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TSEC) is a financial institution, located in Taiwan, Republic of China, located at 17 Po-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. ...
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The main landmark of Hsinchu is its East Gate. ...
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A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. ...
Hsinchu Science Park (Chinese: 新竹科å¸åœ’å€; Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«nzhú KÄ“ Xué Yuán QÅ«) was established by the government of the Republic of China on December 15, 1980. ...
The main landmark of Hsinchu is its East Gate. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TSEC) is a financial institution, located in Taiwan, Republic of China, located at 17 Po-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. ...
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 Realtek Headquarter in Hsinchu Science Park Realtek manufactures and sells a wide variety of products throughout the world, and its product lines can be broadly categorized into two subdivisions: Communications Network ICs, and Computer Peripheral and Multimedia ICs. Included among the communications network IC products manufactured and provided by Realtek are: network interface controllers, (both the traditional 10/100M Ethernet controllers and the more advanced Gigabit Ethernet controllers), physical layer controllers (PHYceivers), network switch controllers, gateway controllers, wireless LAN ICs, as well as ADSL router controllers. In particular, the RTL8139 series 10/100M Fast Ethernet controllers met their height during the late 90’s, and continued to take up a significant, and eventually predominant share in the worldwide market in the following years. Those devices categorized as Realtek’s computer peripheral and multimedia IC products, are comprised of the traditional AC97 audio codecs, the High Definition audio codecs, card reader controllers, clock generators, IEEE 1394 ICs, and LCD controllers. Image File history File linksMetadata Realtek_building. ...
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Ethernet is a large and diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs). ...
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A modular network switch with 3 network modules (a total of 24 Ethernet and 14 Fast Ethernet ports) and one power supply. ...
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AC97 (short for Audio Codec 97) is Intel Corporations Audio Codec standard developed by the Intel Architecture Labs in 1997, and used mainly in motherboards (also known as on-board or integrated), modems, and sound cards. ...
An audio codec is a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format. ...
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The most notable Realtek products are 10/100M Ethernet controllers, with a global market share of 70% as of 2003, and AC97 audio codecs, where Realtek's market share is 50%, primarily concentrated in the integrated OEM on-board audio market segment. Presently the ALC850 and RTL8139 are particular OEM favorites, offering low prices, and basic feature sets. RTL8139-based NICs are dubbed "crab cards" in Taiwan, alluding to the crab-like appearance of the Realtek logo. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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It has been announced or projected, on several different occasions, that Realtek will, in the future, focus its R&D resources in the field of digital television technologies, as well as more advanced wireless communications technologies such as ultra-wide band (UWB) communications and the yet-to-be-realized 802.11n standard. It seems clear that Realtek has been setting its eye on pursuing the Holy Grail of the anticipated new applications and needs derived from the concept of Digital Home proposed by Intel. Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analogue signals in analogue (traditional) T.V. It uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a...
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Awards Realtek's single-chip fast ethernet controller, the RTL8139, receives "Best Component" and "Best of Show" awards at Computex-Taipei '97. Seven years later, its dual-band triple-mode WLAN solutions, which includes a baseband processor/media access controller RTL8185L and an RF chip RTL8255, again receive “Best Choice of Computex” award at Computex-Taipei 2004. Computex Taipei (formal name: Taipei International Information Technology Show) is a computer expo held annually at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. ...
Criticism Realtek's products have sometimes met with criticism. From the kernel sources for the FreeBSD operating system, the comment has been made that, "the RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' The 8139 supports bus-master DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance gains that bus-master DMA usually offers."[1] However, OpenBSD developer Theo de Raadt once praised Realtek - "the (newish) Realtek Gigabit Ethernet chips are not too bad at all, and there's lots of documentation. So maybe the Taiwanese products are a little bit later to the market, but they are simpler and robust once they do make it to the market." A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ...
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A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under control of computer programs. ...
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Realtek Media Player (also known as AvRack as per the desktop shortcut; RtlRack as per the executable file) is a free audio software program produced by Realtek, which is packaged with AC97 audio device drivers for their on-board sound card devices. ...
External links - Realtek official website
- List of Realtek Communication/Network IC products
- List of Realtek Audio Codec products
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