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Native name
  
創見資訊股份有限公司

Traded as
  
TWSE: 2451

Area served
  
Worldwide

Founder
  
Chung-Won Shu

Number of employees
  
2,000 (2011)

Type
  
Public

Industry
  
Storage devices

Headquarters
  
Taipei, Taiwan

Founded
  
1988

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Key people
  
Chongwan Shu (Chairman & CEO)

Stock price
  
2451 (TPE) NT$ 99.40 +0.40 (+0.40%)31 Mar, 1:30 PM GMT+8 - Disclaimer

CEO
  
Chung-Won Shu (3 Jun 2003–)

Profiles

Transcend information inc corporate video 2012


Transcend Information, Inc. (Chinese: 創見資訊股份有限公司; pinyin: Chuàngjiàn Zīxùn Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Taiwanese company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan that manufactures and distributes memory products. Transcend's product portfolio consists of over 2,000 products including memory modules, flash memory cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, multimedia products, solid state drives, dashcams, body cameras, personal cloud storage, card readers and accessories.

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It has offices in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, China and South Korea. It was the first Taiwanese memory module manufacturer to receive ISO 9001 certification.

According to Gartner Research in 2013, Transcend was the world's No. 3 USB Flash Drive manufacturer, with 20% year-over-year market share growth, and the world's No. 5 Flash Card manufacturer. And, as per Gartner’s analysis of SSD global market share for 2015, Transcend ranked No. 4 in the industrial SSD market. Transcend has been recognized as one of Taiwan’s Top 20 global brands annually since 2007, with the highest brand value of $244 million USD.

Transcend mp350 8 gb digital music player


History

Chung-Won Shu founded Transcend Information, Inc. in 1988, with its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan. Its first products were: "JetMate" laser printer driver, for producing Chinese characters, and "KeyPro" software protection system. Today, Transcend has become a leading global brand of digital storage, multimedia, and embedded solutions with 14 offices worldwide. Adding to the main corporate headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, Transcend opened overseas offices in Los Angeles (1990), Hamburg (1992), Rotterdam (1996), Tokyo (1997), Hong Kong (2000), Shanghai (2001), Beijing (2005), Shenzhen (2005), London (2005), Maryland (2005), Seoul (2008), Miami (2011) and Silicon Valley (2013). The manufacturing plants are located in Taipei and Shanghai. Transcend also opened 5 retail stores located across Taiwan. In 2000, Transcend moves into e-commerce by offering online direct B2C sales of Transcend-brand products in Taiwan.

Product lines

  • Memory cards - SD / CF / micro SD
  • USB flash drives - USB3.0 / USB2.0
  • External hard drives - Rugged series / Classic series/ 3.5" Desktop storage
  • Solid-state drives - 2.5" SSDs / M.2 SSDs / mSATA SSDs / Portable SSDs
  • Card readers - USB3.0 / USB2.0 / OTB USB
  • Dashcams
  • Body cameras
  • Personal cloud storage
  • Apple solutions - Lightning/USB 3.1 flash drives / SSD upgrade kit / Expansion cards for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro / Portable hard drive and portable SSD for Mac
  • Multimedia products - Digital media players/ DVD writers
  • Memory modules - For Desktop/ Notebook / Server
  • Embedded solutions
    1. Flash: SSD / CF / SD / MMC / eMMC / SATA Module / PATA Module / USB Module
    2. DRAM: Industrial temperature / Workstation / Server / Standard / Low voltage / Low profile

    Global Locations

    Taiwan, Los Angeles, Maryland, Miami, Silicon Valley, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Shenzhen (China), Hong Kong (China),

    References

    Transcend Information Wikipedia