Started in 1989 as a small computer manufacturing enterprise, Asus managed to become, in the relatively short span of 27 years, the fourth biggest IT vendor in the world. This was due to the sheer abilities of its founders, who managed to secure an important contract with Intel very soon […]

Hands-down the most well-known company on the gaming PC market, Alienware was started in ’96 by two engineers who were a bit too much into The X-Files. To say they were successful is an underestimation – after all, there’s virtually no computer user these days who hasn’t […]

Toshiba is a particular case among current big tech vendors in that it never was a small business. While HP started in a wooden garage and Samsung began by selling home-grown vegetables, Toshiba was formed by merging two companies with tradition, Tokyo Denki and Shibaura […]

Among the world’s current biggest IT companies, Samsung has one of the highest positions, after a weird evolution. Let’s put it very simply: a certain Lee Byung-chull, son of a landowner family, started a small business selling noodles and locally-grown food in 1938. One thing […]

If you need a proof that you can still start a computer company in a time where giants are already roaming the Earth, MSI is the entity that will provide that evidence. The company was launched about 30 years ago as Micro-Star International. It made its debut in Taiwan, basically […]

If we were, to sum up Lenovo’s inception in a few words, those would be “In 1984, 11 Chinese scientists decided to start a computer company. The rest is legend”. Started at the same time as Dell, one of its major competitors, Lenovo faced plenty of problems in the beginning, mostly […]

A strikingly successful example of a “garage business” gone crazy, Hewlett-Packard Inc (today split into two companies, HP Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprises) is one of the greatest American companies to date. Founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a literal […]

Founded in 1984, Dell is one prime example of a minor company founded by a University student that made it into the world’s top corporations. Michael Dell dropped out of college to take care of his tiny business, started producing custom-made computers, and became a multi-millionaire […]

The world’s fourth biggest IT vendor, Asus is a Taiwanese company that emerged after its four initiators left Acer – the company that today is just below Asus regarding revenue. Started in 1989, the company gained recognition after reportedly creating an improved version of […]

There probably isn’t a single person in the world who hasn’t heard of Apple. No, not the forbidden fruit from Heaven, but the forbidden fruit of classy design and a superior product. Founded back in ’76 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, the company started as a small computer […]

Under the tagline “Explore beyond limits,” Acer has become one of the world’s top 5 PC providers in just 40 years of business. Founded in Taiwan in ’76, the company started off as a small enterprise dealing with the distribution of electronic parts and other related things. After undergoing a […]