Arctic GmbH

"ARCTIC" redirects here. For other uses, see Arctic (disambiguation).
"Arctic Cooling" redirects here. For cooling of the Arctic, see Climate change in the Arctic, Glaciation, and Greenhouse and icehouse Earth.
Not to be confused with Arctic Silver.

Arctic GmbH
Company typePrivate, GmbH
Industry
Founded2001; 23 years ago (2001)
HeadquartersBevenroder Straße 149, Braunschweig, Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Magnus Huber
(Managing director)
Products
Websitearctic.de

Arctic GmbH, formerly known as Arctic Cooling,[1] is a German, Swiss-founded manufacturer of computer cooling components, mainly CPU and graphics card coolers,[2] case fans and thermal compound. Since 2010, Arctic expanded its business by starting a range of products to cater other consumer demands beyond that of computer cooling hardware. Nowadays, Arctic also offers various consumer products[3]—spanning audio,[4] home entertainment[5] and computer peripherals.[6] In 2012, Arctic was nominated as one of the finalists in the annual PCR Awards.[7]

Founded in 2001, Arctic has offices in Germany, Hong Kong and the United States and cooperates with different production facilities in China. Arctic products are distributed worldwide through distributors,[8] dealers and retailers. The United States, United Kingdom and Germany are Arctic's major markets. The company has also collaborated with leading graphics card brands such as HIS,[9] Inno3D,[10] PowerColor,[11] VTX3D,[12] and Sapphire[13] in the development of OEM cooling equipment.

  1. ^ "Arctic Cooling Becomes Arctic" Archived 20 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, "Hardware Secrets", 3 June 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  2. ^ "The 25 most wanted VGA cooler at Case King: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus is number 1" (German), "PC Games Hardware". Retrieved 17 May 2012
  3. ^ "Arctic Headsets and Headphones Review", "Hardocp", 9 May 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  4. ^ "Arctic to develop wireless audio product line" Archived 23 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, "Audio Pro International", 22 February 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Arctic unveils the MC101 Series Trinity-Powered HTPCs", "Tech Power Up", 1 February 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  6. ^ "Arctic Hobby Remote Control – discover your inner kid", "Kitguru", 12 January 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  7. ^ "PCR Awards 2012: The finalists"
  8. ^ "Arctic goes exclusive with EntaTech", "Channel EMEA", 13 January 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  9. ^ "Tom's Hardware: For the Hardcore PC Enthusiast". 13 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Inno3D GeForce GTX 680: Next Generation Technology is Here" Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, "Inno3d", Mar 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  11. ^ "PowerColor Announces Partnership with Arctic Cooling for Mainstream Graphics Cards", "PowerColor", 20 April 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  12. ^ "VTX3D Announces Partnership with Arctic COOLING for HD4870 Series", VTX3D, 18 August 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2012
  13. ^ "Exclusive Arctic COOLING Solution for Sapphire" "sapphiretech.com", 1 September 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2012