Company:ADI Corporation

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ADI Corporation
TypePublic
IndustryManufacturing
FoundedMarch 1979; 47 years ago (1979-03) in Taiwan
FounderLiao Jian-cheng
Products
  • Computer hardware
  • Footwear
Divisions
  • ADI Systems
  • Quimax Systems

ADI Corporation (Advanced Data International) is a defunct Taiwanese manufacturing company active from 1979 to the 2000s. Its primary export was computer hardware—chiefly computer monitors—through its American subsidiary ADI Systems. For a time, it was the fifth largest monitor manufacturer in the world,[1] with major customers including Apple, Compaq, and Optiquest.

History

ADI Corporation (an initialism for Advanced Data International) was founded in Taiwan in March 1979 by Liao Jian-cheng.[2][3] The company was originally a diversified concern, manufacturing a number of disparate products, including footwear for Nike, Inc.[2][4] By the time the company entered the market for computer hardware in the 1980s, ADI still had a contract with Nike to produce shoes.[2] Its first computer-related exports were data terminals and computer monitors.[5]

In 1986, Liao Jian-cheng merged ADI with his other corporation Cheng Chang Enterprises Co., Ltd.[2] In 1987, the company went public on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.[3] Around the same time, the company established Quimax Systems, an American subsidiary dedicated to importing the company's monitors and terminals manufactured in Taiwan. A major customer of Quimax in the 1980s was Esprit Systems, a seller of terminals that was spun off from Hazeltine Corporation within the decade.[6] In 1989, ADI became a major shareholder in Espirit, and in 1990 the year they led a group of other Taiwanese companies in a takeover of Espirit that transformed the public American company into a privately owned venture.[7][8]

By the turn of the 1990s, ADI was a leading manufacturer of terminals and displays in Taiwan.[5] ADI began offering monitors under their own name starting in 1993, under the subbrand MicroScan.[9] Major customers of ADI soon included Apple Computer, Compaq, and Optiquest.[10]: 72 [11]: 118  Of these customers, Compaq was by far the largest, ADI producing nearly all of their monitors in the 1990s.[12] In November 1994, Compaq, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in May 2002, formed a joint venture with ADI to raise factories in Mexico, Brazil, and Europe to assemble and store ADI's monitors, helping reduce the travel time from Taiwan to ADI's major exports.[13] Unit shipments increased from 1.1 million in 1993 to 1.6 million in 1994.[14] Also in 1994, ADI piloted the production of an i486SX subnotebook, although it never came to fruition.[15]

In 1998, ADI obtained the rights from Sony to sell monitors with Trinitron picture tubes, starting with the MicroScan 5GT.[16] Around the turn of the millennium, the company began selling flat-panel monitors, chiefly LCDs.[10]

ADI went defunct around the same time they let their American website domain name expire in December 2006.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Horne, Jackie (September 1, 1995). "Fears of Taiwanese equity flood ease". Euroweek (Euromoney Publications) (418): 8. ProQuest 230849121. https://www.proquest.com/docview/230849121/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Asian Company Handbook (1990 ed.). Tōyō Keizai Shinpōsha. 1990. p. 563. https://books.google.com/books?id=d4JLAQAAIAAJ. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Dow Jones Guide to the Global Stock Market: Asia/Pacific. 2. Dow Jones & Company. 1999. ISBN 1-881944-13-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=SMbVG3YccR4C. 
  4. ↑ Fang, Cindy; Frances Gao; David Liu; Christopher S. Tang; Weiwei Wang; Tony Wiu (2007). "Supply Chain Configurations of Foreign Cosmetics Companies". Supply Chain Analysis. Springer. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-387-75240-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=g8Nu3ytLenYC. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lim, Linda (1991). Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialisation in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. p. 142. ISBN 9789264134980. https://archive.org/details/foreigndirectinv0000liml/page/142/. 
  6. ↑ Staff writer (May 12, 1989). "Other Financing". Computergram International (GlobalData) (1175). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A7253428/GPS?sid=wikipedia. 
  7. ↑ Staff writer (June 1, 1989). "Esprit Systems to move down from American Exchange to NASDAQ". Computergram International (GlobalData) (1189). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A7310304/GPS?sid=wikipedia. 
  8. ↑ Staff writer (April 4, 1990). "Taiwanese, US investors offer 17 cents a share to take Esprit Systems private". Computergram International (GlobalData) (1399). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A8302706/GPS?sid=wikipedia. 
  9. ↑ Corcoran, Cate (November 1, 1993). "Energy-saving ADI monitors adaptable to chip sets, signals". InfoWorld (IDG Publications) 15 (44): 43. https://books.google.com/books?id=6joEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Dritsas, David; Grant Clauser; Janet Pinkerton (January 2000). "Comdex Wrap Up: New for 2000". Dealerscope (North American Publishing Company) 42 (1): 72–74. ProQuest 218951050. https://www.proquest.com/docview/218951050/. 
  11. ↑ Stone, M. David (March 16, 1993). "ADI Systems Inc.: ADI MicroScan 3E, ADI MicroScan 3E+, ADI MicroScan 4A; Compaq Computer Corp.: Compaq 1024 Color Monitor; Optiquest Inc.: Optiquest 1500D, Optiquest 2000D". PC Magazine (Ziff-Davis) 12 (5): 118, 126. https://books.google.com/books?id=2yYT_SOlHzAC&pg=PA118. 
  12. ↑ Staff writer (September 22, 1995). "Siliconware flies, ADI struggles as Taiwan list starts". Euroweek (Euromoney Publications) (421): 9. ProQuest 230848886. https://www.proquest.com/docview/230848886/. 
  13. ↑ Kanellos, Michael (November 28, 1994). "ADI develops offshore sites with Compaq's aid". Computer Reseller News (CMP Publications) (607): 26. ProQuest 227487080. https://www.proquest.com/docview/227487080/. 
  14. ↑ Brown, Jeanette; Bill Terdoslavich (April 24, 1995). "Monitors: A Race To Put Bigger, Greener, Sharper-Looking Images On Screens". Computer Reseller News (CMP Publications): 94. ProQuest 227502656. https://www.proquest.com/docview/227502656/. 
  15. ↑ Zimmerman, Micahel R. (June 6, 1994). "Subnotebooks, Pentium-based portables previewed in Taiwan". PC Week (Ziff-Davis) 11 (22): 11. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A16003142/GPS?sid=wikipedia. 
  16. ↑ Robinson, Daniel (June 1998). "ADI MicroScan 5GT". PC Direct (ZDNet): 333. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A21278473/GPS?sid=wikipedia. 
  17. ↑ "adiusa.com". Network Solutions. December 8, 2006. Archived from the original on December 16, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20061216160638/http://www.adiusa.com:80/. 



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