DFI

DFI (Diamond Flower Inc) is a Taiwanese industrial computer company with headquarters in Taipei. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells industrial motherboard, industrial PCs, System-on-Module, industrial displays, and ODM/OEM services. DFI was founded by Y.C Lu on July 14, 1981, developing and selling electronics components and add-on cards in the beginning. However, DFI switched to the production of motherboards after searching for potential markets and deciding to focus on the strengths of DFI. Targeting the new growing market in motherboard products, DFI announced the Patent License Agreement with Intel Corporation to build partnership with Intel in 1990 and has been developing and manufacturing motherboard products since 1992. With continuous dedication, DFI quickly gained a reputation in Asia-Pacific region after five years and was awarded Top 10 Motherboard Manufacturer in CRN Magazine from the year 1997 to 1999. Starting from 1998, DFI began to follow the strategies of Intel by releasing Intel 440BX series motherboards, 810 motherboards, and 810e motherboards to worldwide markets. Since its growing advances in manufacturing motherboards, DFI was awarded the Intel Global Demo Board manufacturer award in 1998 and 1999 respectively.…

DFI (Diamond Flower Inc) is a Taiwanese industrial computer company with headquarters in Taipei. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells industrial motherboard, industrial PCs, System-on-Module, industrial displays, and ODM/OEM services. DFI was founded by Y.C Lu on July 14, 1981, developing and selling electronics components and add-on cards in the beginning. However, DFI switched to the production of motherboards after searching for potential markets and deciding to focus on the strengths of DFI. Targeting the new growing market in motherboard products, DFI announced the Patent License Agreement with Intel Corporation to build partnership with Intel in 1990 and has been developing and manufacturing motherboard products since 1992. With continuous dedication, DFI quickly gained a reputation in Asia-Pacific region after five years and was awarded Top 10 Motherboard Manufacturer in CRN Magazine from the year 1997 to 1999. Starting from 1998, DFI began to follow the strategies of Intel by releasing Intel 440BX series motherboards, 810 motherboards, and 810e motherboards to worldwide markets. Since its growing advances in manufacturing motherboards, DFI was awarded the Intel Global Demo Board manufacturer award in 1998 and 1999 respectively. Catering to the growing market of high-end motherboards, DFI aimed to develop advanced overclocking motherboards, the LanParty series, which has been aimed to be a segment for small powerful computers that meet the requirements of end users in the 2000s. DFI introduced the junior lineup ("JR") with two products, the P45 and 790GX, which has since been extended with Nvidia and X58 chipsets. Other LanParty series include the LT, DK (Dark), and the LanParty UT. With blossoming business in the market, DFI went public and launched its initial public offering (IPO) on January 15, 2000. DFI has already gained a reputation from its motherboard products and hot-selling lineup, LanParty, at that time. And aside from developing LanParty consumer products, DFI started to develop ACP (Application Control Platform) businesses, mainly targeted at vertical applications in slot machine, POS, security system, and so on since 2002. In 2005, DFI gained over 50% revenues from this new business. With this successful transformation, industrial computer became the primary business of DFI. As of 2003, DFI's renowned overclocked gamer motherboard, LANPARTY NFII ULTRA, was awarded the Chief Editor Choice Award in PC Magazine and the Best Creativity Award in Tom's Hardware Guide. Since DFI planned to focus on developing embedded system products, not only did they stop developing Consumer Product Line, but also started establishing embedded system developments and designs in 2011 to expand its industrial computer business. ==History== ===1992–2000=== As of 1992, DFI introduced ICT and SMT devices into its facility to increase the manufacturing quality and efficiency. In 1993, DFI continually expanded the facility, which was located in Hsi-Chih City and was 2,300 square feet. DFI's business office and Research and Development Department moved to the facility and introduced Green PC with energy-efficiency design into the facility. As of 1994, DFI researched and developed CD-ROM, officially entered into multimedia system market. The revenue of the notebook increased to over $100 million and the overall revenue of 1994 increased by 25%, over $2 billion. As of 1996, DFI transformed the CD-ROM facility into an assembly system facility, designing and manufacturing the world's first 75MHZ system bus motherboard, which supported the CYRIX PR 200+CPU. In the meantime, DFI began establishing the third SMT assembly and adopted Siemens SIPLACE80S-15 high speed CNC machine to increase the production of motherboards to 40,000 pcs per month, as well as increasing the self-production to 120, 000 per month. After manufacturing 586 motherboards that supported dual CPU, DFI was dominant in the motherboard market and targeted developing countries, accommodating to Philips Asian marketing system. As of 1997, DFI expanded the facility in Hsi-Chih City for the third time, totaling the area to 2, 800 square feet. DFI also expanded 2 surface mount technology (SMT) high speed CNC machines to upgrade the production of motherboards to 180, 000 pcs per month. Devoted to developing Philips and Lemel assembly OEM business, DFI manufactured 10, 000 systems every month. At the same time, DFI established a third OEM assembly facility in Dongguan city, China and built a European branch office in Bremen, Germany in order to advance the quality of services in European regions. Being engaged in the server market, DFI got started in designing and developing motherboards that support SCSI onboard and Dual Pentium CPU in 1997. From the year of 1997 to 1999, DFI was awarded the Top 10 Motherboard Manufacturer in CRN (Computer Reseller New) Magazine, which had already gained attention by the worldwide market due to DFI's motherboards' design and development. In April, 1998, DFI was preparing to apply for becoming a listed company at Taipei Exchange (TPEx) and TWSE. In the same year, DFI released Intel 440BX series motherboard, which was in line with Intel. The 810 motherboard of DFI was awarded the Demo Board amongst Intel Asia-Pacific region. In February, 1999, P5BV3+motherboards was awarded the high performance Socket7 motherboard in Computer World Magazine in China. In early May of the same year, DFI launched 810 motherboard to the market, following the release of Intel and had already gone into mass production worldwide. The 810e motherboard was re-awarded Intel Global Demo Board and was launched to the market in September, 1999. DFI went public and launched its initial public offering (IPO) on 15, January, 2000. During the same year, DFI founded Diamond Flower H.T. Group (BVI) Inc. ==Popular products== As of 2012, DFI stopped consumer product line and no longer produced high-end gamer boards such as the LanParty series for end users ==DFI-ACP== DFI is also manufacturing motherboards for various industrial purposes. DFI-ACP is a Wintel based platform provider for non-PC business, products range from board level, open frame, add-on boards to barebone systems. ==References==

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