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Company Overview

Tatung Science & Technology, Inc., (TSTI®) is a leading provider of high performance blade server, X86 server and RAID storage products for applications in the life sciences, engineering, nanotechnology, web-based and E-commerce servers, internet servers and HPC clustering environments. TSTI is one of the earliest companies to commit to develop workstations and servers based on SPARC technology.

In 2001, Tatung and TSTI developed and introduced the new ultra dense blade server - TUD-2016. Completely modular, with hot-swappable 16 server blades, redundant integrated gigabit switch blades, management blades, fan modules and power supplies and management software, the system offers high availability in a 2U chassis. It supports light out and remote management, fast and automatic software provisioning. Since then, Tatung and TSTI continued to develop and introduce a high performance TUD-3114, a 3U fourteen single Xeon server blades and TUD-4010, a 4U 10 dual AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon server blades family products.

Tatung also introduces a broad line of dual Opteron, dual Intel Xeon and signle P4 rackmount servers for the internet, engineering, scientific and clustering applicaitons.

TSTI also carries a full line of Terybyte disk array storage products.

Recently, TSTI also carries a family of Tatung HDTV and DSTB and PVR products for OEM/ODM customers.

TSTI offers a broad line of workstations, servers and storage products

Tatung Science and Technology, Inc., TSTI® is a subsidiary of the $7B Tatung Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of personal computers, workstations and servers, and display products. With manufacturing capabilities in six countries and developed markets in over 70 more, Tatung Co. is an international supplier of high technology products. TSTI is the leading provider of SPARC-compatible workstations and servers. The company offers a broad range of client/server computing solutions, from entry-level workstations and award winning workstations to powerful multi-processing workstations, servers and storage products.

History

Tatung Co. was founded by Shan-Chih Lin in 1918. Mr. Lin dedicated himself to civil engineering and architecture, managing his own business under the motto, "Integrity, Honesty, Industry, and Frugality". After retiring in 1942, he donated his own property to establish the Tatung Vocational School of Industry, in Taipei. In 1942, Dr. T.S. Lin was appointed by the founder to take up a position with three functions - professor, president and chairman of Tatung Schools-Company. Since then, Dr. Lin has dedicated himself to the Education-Industry Integration for Research and Development. At present, Tatung Company has 35,000 employees including 15,000 overseas. The 20,000 employees in Taiwan own 20 percent of all the Tatung shares. Tatung has over 200 thousand shareholders. It produces and markets 300 different products.

Chairman W.S. Lin and Chairman EmeritusT.S. Lin at the Shan-Chih Educational and Research Building at Tatung HQ

Dr. Lin had a vision of expanding Tatung's global market. In 1983, TSTI®, located in Milpitas, CA, was established as the Northwest regional support and service center for Tatung's personal computers and monitors. Dr. Lin searched to find a seasoned executive familiar with the American market to head TSTI, and he subsequently selected Dr. Chan to run the operation. Dr. Chan obtained his Master and Ph.D. degree from the EECS department at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Chan's American education and corporate background made him the perfect choice to head up the highly skilled research and development team chartered with invertigating new computing technologies and corresponding market opportunities for Tatung in North America. The engineering team quickly took notice of the powerful reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors that had gained notoriety at the University of California, Berkeley, and at a then small company called SUN Microsystems.

SUN's implementation of RISC technology, called Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC), was introduced on a SUN workstation for the first time in 1987. The following year, SUN released its SPARC chip designs and operating system technology for licensing by vendors such as Tatung.

TSTI's research and development team embraced SPARC and developed a broad line of workstation and server products for engineering, scientific and internet applications.

In 2001, Tatung and TSTI developed and introduce the new ultra dense blade server with integrated gigabit switch and management software, with 16 server blades in a 2U chassis. It supports light out and remote management, fast and automatic software provisioning.

Recently, Tatung also developed a broad line of dual Intel Xeon and signle P4 rackmount servers for the internet, engineering, scientific and clustering applicaitons.

Tatung believes its 86-year track record as a technologically focused company, coupled with its position as one of the world's leading manufacturing entities, enables it to take an aggressive stance in the workstation and server market.

Tatung's strategy continues to offer the world competitively priced yet powerful workstations and servers that appeal to a broad range of commercial as well as technical markets. The company's mission as a workstation and sever vendor is to incorporate the most advanced technologies into the broadest range of client/server computing solutions available.