| Fact Sheet | |
| The Company: | OPTi, Inc. 180+ employees worldwide |
| Headquarters: | Milpitas, California |
| Key Dates: | 1989
- OPTi founded. 1993 - Initial Public Offering |
| Strategy: | OPTi's market strategy is to be the leading independent volume supplier of multimedia silicon solutions to the PC marketplace. |
| Products: | OPTi designs and manufactures core logic and multimedia chip sets for the mobile, desktop, and audio markets. |
| Customers: | Customers represent most of the top worldwide PC manufacturers, including Acer, Apple, Compaq, Gateway 2000, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Texas Instruments, and Zenith Data Systems. |
| Executive Officers: | Jerry Chang,
CEO and chairman Dave Zacarias, CFO Jun-Wei Chen, Vice President, Foundry & Technology Services Patrick Ang, Vice President, Multimedia Products Steve Wu, Executive Vice President, System Logic Products Unit George Fang, Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales Johnny Lie, Vice President of Operations |
| Key Milestones | |
| October 1997 | OPTi and InVision Interactive sign multimedia software license agreement allowing OPTi to bundle the CyberSoundâ GM software synthesizer with OPTi’s audio chips |
| March 1997 | OPTi and Argonaut RISC Cores Inc., sign world wide, non-exclusive license for the ARC Microprocessor giving OPTi the ability to support development of future audio, telephony, 3D, and intelligent controller products |
| February 1997 | OPTi and QSound Labs sign world wide, non-exclusive license allowing OPTi to incorporate Qsound Lab’s 3D Positional, Stereo Enhancement, and Virtual AC-3 audio technologies with OPTi’s audio chips |
| November 1996 | OPTi and Midisoft sign audio software license allowing OPTi to bundle Midisoft Sound BarTM with OPTi's audio chips |
| November 1996 | OPTi and Willow Pond sign multimedia software license agreement allowing OPTi to bundle Media Rack sound control system with OPTi's audio chips |
| July 1996 | OPTi and NEC sign agreement for NEC to license OPTi's LCD graphics controller technology |
| June 1996 | OPTi Vendetta, OPTi Discovery, OPTi Firestar, OptiSound new silicon solutions for mobile and desktop announced at Computex'96 in Taiwan |
| January 1996 | In 1995, OPTi shipped more than 11 million chipsets to leading PC and board manufacturers worldwide |
| January 1996 | OPTi ships to 9 out of top 10 PC manufacturers in 1995 |
| September 1995 | Viper-N mobile core logic chipset designed into Hewlett-Packard's OmniBook 5000 notebook computers |
| September 1995 | Joint foundry agreement with United Microelectronics Corporation is announced |
| August 1995 | Viper-N mobile core logic chipset designed into Compaq's Pentium notebook computers |
| January 1995 | OPTi ships to 9 out of top 10 PC manufacturers in 1994 |
| 1993 | OPTi acquries MediaChips, manufacturer of Soundblaster and Windows Sound System compatible audio chips |
| 1993 | Initial Public Offering |
| 1991 | OPTi became largest independent supplier of Core Logic chips to 486 marketplace. 6 out of 10 486 PC's contained OPTi silicon |
| 1989 | OPTi founded |