Pegatron is one of the leading Taiwanese companies in the sector of electronics manufacturing selling a wide range of products. The market of Pegatron is spread worldwide and currently its headquarters is based in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Pegatron Corporation was established fourteen years ago as a spin-off entity of AsusTek Computer Inc and today it has emerged as a very successful company. The company is under the leadership of T.H. Tung who is the Chairman of Pegatron.
Pegatron’s main products include notebooks, desktop computers, game consoles, netbook computers, motherboards, LCD TVs, etc. The company is also involved in the manufacturing of broadband communication products such as cable modems, set-top boxes, smartphones, etc. In recent years, the company has also started manufacturing smart home devices and wearable smart products as it is important for the companies to evolve with time and technology. Pegatron also invests significantly in research and development to offer high-end products to its customers.
History of Pegatron Corporation
Pegatron Corporation started off as an individual entity from 27th June 2007. This incident took place as AsusTek decided to go through a major restructuring of the company and was splitted into three individual corporations. The three corporations are namely, Asus, Pegatron Corporation, and Unihan Corporation. Among these three companies, Pegatron in particular focussed on oEM manufacturing of motherboards and components. But with time the goal and structure of Pegatron evolved as well. While the restructuring of operations started back in 2007, Asus finally spun off Pegatron on 1st June 2010. Since then Pegatron has strived to build its unique identity and a strong team.
Apart from Taiwan, Pegatron has expanded its business to other nations as well including China, Czech Republic, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. The company started expanding very fast and thus more employees were hired. In 2010, the company was operating with approximately 97,000 employees which after ten years has turned to 172,000. After AsusTek split the parent company into three independent companies in 2007, the next year was followed by the acquisition of Unihan Corporation by Pegatron. Today, Unihan Corporation operates as the subsidiary of Pegatron and its acquisition helped the company to expand its product base.
Products and Services
Pegatron is the manufacturing of a wide variety of products ranging from personal computing to car electronics. In computer products, Pegatron is a manufacturer of personal computing, rugged computers, and servers. Rugged computers are mainly designed for its usage in extreme environmental conditions like protection from water, UV radiations, etc. Servers on the other hand are focused on building products for enterprise storage systems which includes high performance motherboards and RAID cards. As a part of products for consumer electronics, Pegatron manufactures tablets and game consoles. Pegatron also manufactures a wide range of communication products which includes smartphones, cable modems, Set-top box, and network switch. Pegatron offers the network equipment solutions especially for the large enterprises and datacenters such that it reduces the complexity and difficulty and improves efficiency of the network.
As mentioned earlier, Pegatron is actively participating in the area of car electronics and so far built Pegatron’s car entertainment system, vehicle telematics system, and advanced driver assistance system. Many companies are currently involved in manufacturing smart wearables that help in tracking health management functions. Pegatron is also investing to manufacture smart wearable technology carrying out multiple features including health monitoring. Some of the other smart electronics manufactured by Pegatron are IoT products, drones, robots, and virtual reality (VR). Apart from these electronics products, Pegatron also offers quality services for both hardware and software technologies across the world.
The Parent Company – AsusTek
AsusTek Computer Inc is one of the most admired computer brands across the globe. The company has created a strong brand presence both in its country and the international market. Founded in 1989, AsusTek is a Taiwanese company pioneering in the computer hardware and electronics industry. According to the statistics, Asus stands in the 5th position in terms of world’s largest PC vendors by unit sales in 2021. Asus is also in the list of Asia’s Top 10 IT companies. Asus is famous for its wide range of smartphones and laptops (especially gaming laptops).
T. H. Tung – Chairperson of Pegatron Corporation
T. H. Tung is a famous Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist. He is famous as the co-founder of Asus and currently playing his role as the Chairperson of Pegatron. Tung completed his education from National Taipei University of Technology and started his career with Acer Inc. He later quit his job to co-found Asus.
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