Biostar Microtech International Corp. (Taiwan, China)

Biostar Microtech International Corp, founded in 1986, manufactures XT form factor mainboards and in later years add-on cards. In order to expand its capacity to meet customer demand globally, Biostar was the first to establish a manufacturing facility in China in 1990. In 1998, its sales revenues exceeded US$130 million and it ranked 227th among the top 1000 enterprises in Taiwan. Furthermore, Biostar obtained an ISO 9001 certification in 1999 and was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in the same year. AS a motherboard manufacturer based in Taiwan, the company designs and manufactures computer hardware products such as motherboards, video cards, barebone computers and industrial PCs, to meet the demands of market development by providing more integrated solutions to customers. Biostar has shifted from the SI/OEM market to the channel market with the portion of branded products close to 100 percent. To date, the company is the first to allow end-users to modify voltages and frequencies of the video card's GPU and memory to boost performance to extreme limits (overclocking). Those cards are either called V-Ranger or V-Series. Their mainboards, notably the T-Power and T-Series, have been widely reviewed to be highly overclockable achieving world record FSB overclocks. In October 2008 Biostar was awarded “Top 20 Taiwan Global Brand” conducted by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) with an estimate brand value of US$ 46 million. Only three companies had a chance to crack the Top 20 list for the first time ¨C and Biostar was among them. With excellent product quality and genuine service, Biostar has received positive response and recognition from its customers. It has stayed accurate and up-to-date with market information to keep it in line with market dynamics. Biostar is committed to all customers by offering excellent product quality, providing good and genuine customer service, achieving a reasonable production cost reduction, and preventing problems by giving more benefits and competitive prices to the customers while establishing a positive, long-term relationship.