AsusTek Computer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational computer and phone hardware and electronics company headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Its products include desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, networking equipment, monitors, WIFI routers, projectors, motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, peripherals, wearables, servers, workstations, and tablet PCs. The company is also an original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
Asus is the world’s 5th-largest PC vendor by 2017 unit sales. Asus appears in BusinessWeek’s “InfoTech 100” and “Asia’s Top 10 IT Companies” rankings, and it ranked first in the IT Hardware category of the 2008 Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands survey with a total brand value of $1.3 billion.
Asus has a primary listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the ticker code 2357 and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange under a ticker code ASKD.
Native name: 華碩電腦股份有限公司
Type: Public
Traded as: TWSE: 2357, LSE: ASKD
Industry: Computer hardware, Electronics
Founded: 2 April 1989; 31 years ago
Founder: Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Tsiah, T.H. Tung
Headquarters: Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan
Area served: Worldwide
Products: Desktops, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, networking equipment, monitors, projectors, motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, peripherals, wearables, servers, workstations, and tablet PCs
Website: www.asus.com