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Histori
ASRock Inc. is an electronics manufacturer based in Taiwan that focuses on the development of motherboards, industrial PCs, and HTPC.
ASRock originally separated from Asus in 2002 to compete with companies like Foxconn for the commodity OEM market. Since then, ASRock has also gained momentum in the DIY sector and plans to move upstream companies starting in 2007 after a successful IPO on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In 2010 became part of Pegatron. Asrock currently produces consumer motherboards, servers, workstations and HTPCs.
ASRock has distributors in over 90 countries worldwide and branches in Europe, US and China.
ASRock established itself as an affiliate server motherboard in April 2013, having received orders from 10 intermediate clients for servers and industrial PC motherboards and established partnerships with system integrators.
ASRock is the third largest motherboard manufacturer in the world, having teamed up with Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel - 12 times FPS World Games championship recorders - in the development of enthusiast gaming-oriented motherboards in 2011. In addition, in early 2012 ASRock requested topclocking Champion world of HWBOT, Nick Shih.
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Products and services
In addition to motherboards, ASRock also sells mini desktop computers. Three ASRock products were selected for the 2012 Taiwan Brand Award for the first time, and then became products supported by the External Trade Development Council when they promoted the brand image quality of Taiwan globally. In 2012, ASRock stepped into the PC industry and server motherboard market.
Market coverage
ASRock is a top 3 Worlds motherboard brand and distribution channels include electronics stores, PC stores, gadget retailers and online stores. Major sales regions in 2011 included Europe for 37.68%, Central and South America accounted for 21.13%, Asia Pacific region accounted for 40.95% and other markets accounted for 0.24%. Overall, ASRock accounts for the majority of sales in Asia and Europe in terms of overall performance.
Top 3 Motherboard Brands
- Korea: ASRock is the No.1 brand according to Korean motherboard market share analysis in June 2012 (61% market share).
- Japan: ASRock ranked No.2 in Japan.
According to annual reports for Digitimes 2011, ASRock has grown very fast in recent years. ASRock has become one of the top 3 motherboard brands for 2 consecutive years.
( Note: OEM shipments of MSI and ECS are not included in the image. Source: Companies and market observers, compiled by Digitimes, November 2012 )
Reception
ASRock receives Tom's Hardware 2012 Recommended Buy Award for their X79 Extreme4 motherboard, and also won the Xbit labs 2012 Editor Recommended Award with Z77 Extreme4. In addition, the ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3, the Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 and the mini PC series were awarded three Taiwan Brand Awards 2011.
ASRock is also the first and only manufacturer of XXX mini-ITX/ac motherboard ITX. It supports Haswell-E and Broadwell-E Intel Core i7 and Haswell-EP Intel Xeon CPUs with CPU core support for up to 18 cores.
See also
- List of companies from Taiwan
- Asus
- Biostar
- The Elitegroup Computer System (ECS)
- Gigabyte Technology
- Micro-Star International (MSI)
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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