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ViewSonic Corporation
Private
Founded1987
HeadquartersWalnut, California, United States
Key peopleJames Chu, Founder, CEO
IndustryComputer
ProductsComputer display
Revenue$1.2002 billion (2005) USD
Websitewww.viewsonic.com


ViewSonic is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including tablet PCs and wireless monitors.

The privately held company has approximately $1 billion in worldwide sales annually. ViewSonic's headquarters are located in Walnut, California, United States. It has won over 2000 awards and recommendations.[1]

History

The company was initially founded as Keypoint Technology Corporation in 1987. In 1990 it launched the ViewSonic line of color computer monitors, and shortly afterwards the company renamed itself after its brand. The founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of ViewSonic is James Chu.

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A real adult Gouldian Finch
The ViewSonic logo features Gouldian Finches, colorful birds native to Australia, as a symbol of innovation, quality and value.

In the mid-nineties, ViewSonic rose to become one of the top-rated makers of computer CRT monitors, alongside Sony, NEC, MAG Innovision, and Panasonic. ViewSonic soon displaced the rest of these companies to emerge as the largest display manufacturer from America/Japan at the turn of the century. More recently, ViewSonic has been overtaken by Korean giants Samsung and LG, as the latter were at the forefront of fledging LCD technology.

In 2000, ViewSonic acquired the Nokia Display Products' branded business.[2]

In 2002, a former employee of ViewSonic maliciously shut down a key company server. This prevented ViewSonic's Taiwan office from accessing the business's data, causing an estimated US$53,000 in damages.[3]

In 2005, ViewSonic and Tatung won a British patent lawsuit filed against them by LG Philips in a dispute over which company created technology for rear mounting of LCDs in a mobile PC (U.K. Patent GB2346464B, titled, “portable computer.").[4]

On July 2, 2007 the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $143.8M in an IPO on NASDAQ.[5]

Products

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A ViewSonic 17-inch monitor.


In 1998, ViewSonic announced that two of its Professional Series monitors achieved TCO '99 certification.[6]

In 2000, ViewSonic partnered with AT&T to offer Internet appliances integrated with the AT&T WorldNet Service, initially targeting the corporate market. The Internet appliances ranged from standalone i-boxes, integrated LCD and CRT devices, to web phones and wireless web pads. The units were deemed capable of operating on nearly any operating system, including Windows CE, Linux, QNX and VxWorks.[7]

ViewSonic was the first manufacturer to bring Smart Display to the market, with the Airpanel V150 in early 2003. This included a 15" 1024×768 LCD, a 400MHz Intel XScale processor, 32MB ROM, 64MB RAM and 802.11b wireless, and a USB wireless hub for the host PC.

At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, ViewSonic introduced display products, namely a projector, monitors and an HDTV set, capable of being connected directly to a video iPod.[8]

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References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ ViewSonic Corporation Acquires Nokia Display Products' Branded Business (January 17, 2000) - Accessed: July 3, 2007
3. ^ Former admin pleads guilty to data deletion (07 Oct 2003) ZDNet.co.uk - Accessed: July 3, 2007
4. ^ F. Moltzen, Edward. "ViewSonic Prevails In Patent Dispute", ChannelWeb Network, CMP Media LLC, 2005-12-13. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. 
5. ^ ViewSonic Registers for IPO, Forbes. Access date: 3-July-2007.
6. ^ "WORLD FIRST AS VIEWSONIC MONITORS ACHIEVE TCO '99", prnewswire.co.uk, PR Newswire Europe Ltd., 1998-10-29. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. 
7. ^ "Viewsonic Corporation unveils state-of-the-art internet appliances - announces strategic relationship with AT&T WorldNet Service", prnewswire.co.uk, PR Newswire Europe Ltd., 2000-08-01. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. 
8. ^ Burke, Steven. "CES 2007: ViewSonic Drives iPod Integration", ChannelWeb Network, CMP Media LLC, 2007-01-09. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. 

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