Leadtek

Leadtek Research, Inc.

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Type	Public (TSEC: T2465)
Industry	Computer hardware
Founded	October 24, 1986
Headquarters	New Taipei, (Taiwan)
Key people	K.S. Lu (President and Chairman)
Products	WinFast series of video cards WinFast series of TV tuners for PCs NSC 3600 series of video surveillance equipment
Revenue	$169.9 million USD (2003)
Net income	unknown
Number of employees	over 498
Slogan	"We Make Dreams a Reality"
Website	http://www.leadtek.com.tw

Leadtek Research, Inc. is a Taiwanese company, founded in 1986, which focuses on research and development that is specialized in the design and manufacture of graphics cards.

Products

Products in Leadtek's Computer Group include the WinFast Series 3D graphics accelerators (of the NVIDIA GeForce line, mainstream and workstation-class), motherboards and multimedia cards. Products in its Communications Group include video telephony, surveillance and GPS solutions.

History

Leadtek GPS Team

It has been the pioneer of the GPS products since 1997, one of Taiwan’s earliest. The unit includes 120 people: one half is R&D-engineers. Now, it is recognized as one of world’s largest Value-Added Manufacturers(VAM) for GPS solutions.

Currently, Leadtek GPS products include Pocket PC GPS Accessories, Personal/ Vehicle Tracking solutions, PNDs, GPS System products with multimedia and communications capabilities, and GPS modules.

Key dates

• 1997
  Pioneer of GPS products since 1997 (one of Taiwan’s earliest).
• 2000
  Leadtek GPS module became “de facto” Smart Antenna.
  module (9531) SiRF Star I GPS module (9520).
• 2001
  Mini size GPS antenna for PDA application .
  9532 Smart Antenna.
  9540/9542/9543 SS-2 module.
• 2002
  9543LP module/ 9546 SiRFXtrac module .
  9546 SiRFXtrac module.
  9534 CF card receiver.
• 2003
  9551 SD card receiver.
  9547 SiRFLoc/ SiRFXtrac module.
  9800 2t host-based module .
  First Bluetooth GPS Receiver 9537-SiRF Star II.
• 2004
  First GPS receiver (9553)-SiRF Star III chipset.
  First SMD module (9548)-SiRF Star III chipset.
  First tiny Bluetooth GPS Receiver 9553.
  SiRF Star II SMD module (9805).
  First GPS receiver with RDS/TMC function (9815) to European market.
• 2005
  All-in-one GPS Navigator (9700)-Win CE4.0 platform.
• 2006
  9101LP/9548SLP/9552LP module (SiRF Star III).
  9805ST/9540G/9121/9122 module (SiRF Star II).
  9500EVK evaluation kit.
  9559X Bluetooth GPS receiver.
• 2007
  9450 GPS Smart Antenna.
  9569 Bluetooth GPS receiver.
  9750/9752 PND (Personal Navigation Device).
• 2008
  LR 8M03 LBS Tracker.

Product Reviews

• LEADTEK A6600GT TDH 128MB AGP 8x Video Card
• TDH 128MB AGP 8x Video Card
• Leadtek WinFast 7950 GX2 TDH

External links

• Leadtek Research Main Site (Taiwan)
• Leadtek Research Inc. (USA)
• Leadtek Research Europe B.V. (UK)