Accton Technology Corporation (Chinese: 智邦科技; pinyin: Zhìbāng Kējì) is a Taiwanese company in the electronics industry that primarily engages in the development and manufacture of networking and communication solutions, as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) or original design manufacturer (ODM) partner.
Accton was founded on February 9, 1988. Accton filled its IPO in November 1995.[3]
Acquisitionsedit
1999 – Emitcom[4]
2000 – Minority stake in U.S. Robotics modem division from 3Com (with NatSteel from Singapore)[5]
2010 – Mototech[citation needed]
2015 – SMC Networks[citation needed]
Joint venturesedit
2002 – Accton and SVA Group China – formed SVA Accton[6]
2003 – Accton and Philips – formed Arcadyan Technology[7]
2011 – Accton and Alvarion – formed AWB[8]
Exitsedit
2004 – ADMTek Inc to Infineon for €80 million[9]
2006 – 69% of Arcadyan Technology to Compal for US$30 million[10]
Servicesedit
OEM of networking gearedit
ODM of networking gearedit
Design and Development
Supply Chain
Manufacturing
Financeedit
During the year 2009, Accton obtained approximately 69% and 14% of its total revenue from switches and WLAN products, respectively.
During the year 2017, Accton obtained approximately 68% and 12% out of its total revenue from network switches and network appliances. Network access came third with 9%, followed by 5% in Wireless networking and 1% of the revenue coming from Broadband networking gear.[11]
Total sales for 2018 increased 18.23 percent annually to NT$43.09 billion (over US$1.3 billion) with Facebook, Amazon (company), and HP Inc weighing in.[12]
Melody Chiang (Senior Vice President of Business Management)
Jackal Lee (Senior Vice President of Product Supply & Demand)
Hin-Soon Liew (Vice President)
Ben Cheng (Vice President)
Joseph Hsieh (Vice President)
Board of directorsedit
Accton's board consists of the following directors:[15]
Meen-Ron Lin (Chair at Accton, former CFO of Accton Technology)
Kuo-Hsiu Huang (Director at Accton, President of Accton Technology China)
Heng-Yi Du (Director at Accton, Chairman at Wan Yuan Textiles, Chung Tai Transportation, and Ting Sing Co, Director of Ve Wong Corporation, SECOM, South China Insurance, and The Ambassador Hotel)
Shu-Chieh Huang (Independent Director at Accton, former CEO of Deloitte Taiwan)
Fa-Yauh Lee (Independent Director at Accton, Independent Director at Aethertek)
2018 – Outstanding Work Environment in Gender Equality from the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau[16]
2018 – National Quality Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Presented by President Tsai Ing-Wen)[17]
CSIRO patent issuesedit
The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) holds the patent to a component of the IEEE 802.11n standard. This component is also part of other protocols marketed under the Wi-Fi trademark. The IEEE requested from the CSIRO a Letter of Assurance that no lawsuits would be filed for anyone implementing the standard. In September 2007, CSIRO responded that they would not be able to comply with this request since litigation was involved.[18]