Sapphire Technology

Sapphire Technology Limited
Native name
藍寶科技
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Headquarters
Sha Tin New Town, Hong Kong
ProductsMotherboards
Graphics cards
Number of employees
105+ (2018)
Websitewww.sapphiretech.com

Sapphire Technology Limited (Chinese: 藍寶科技) is a Hong Kong–based technology company, founded in 2001, which produces graphics cards for personal computers and workstations, motherboards, TV tuner cards, digital audio players[1] and LCDTVs[2]

Sapphire's products are based on AMD graphics processing units, and both AMD (ATI) and Intel motherboard chipset technology. The company is the largest supplier of AMD-based video cards in the world.[3][4]

Sapphire was the first company to release a video card with a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connector.[5]

Sapphire was the first company to release a video card having clock speed of 1000 MHz (1 GHz) with the release of the Sapphire Atomic Edition HD 4890.

  1. ^ SapphireTech.com - SAPPHIRE - Contact Us
  2. ^ "TGDaily - Sapphire joins the 2160p LCD TV party -".
  3. ^ 'Sapphire, ATI's 100% partner', at Digital-Daily.com
  4. ^ 'Welcome to the SAPPHIRE Family' at Sapphiretech.com
  5. ^ "'Sapphire Releases World's First Graphics Card with HDMI' at X-bit labs". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.