industry computer systems consulting servers storage founded 1989 founder dr. t. symon chang headquarters taipei taiwan key people dr. t. symon chang former ceo and president dr. james sytwu former general manager and head of engineering mr. sander chang former vice president of operations ms. teresa chen vice president of finance and controller mr. albert mu vice president of enterprise business unit mitac products motherboard servers number of employees est. 250 worldwide 2007 website http www.tyan.com tyan computer corporation ; also known as tyan business unit or tbu is a subsidiary of mitac international and a manufacturer of computer motherboards including models for both intel and amd processors . they develop and produce high end server smp and desktop barebones systems as well as provide design and production services to tier 1 global oems and a number of other regional oems . the company was founded in 1989 by dr. t. symon chang a veteran of ibm and intel . at that time dr. chang saw an empty space in the market in which there were no strong players for the smp server space and as such he founded tyan in order to develop produce and deliver such products starting with a dual intel pentium series motherboard as well as a number of other single processor motherboards all geared towards server applications . since then tyan has produced a number of single and multi processor as well as multi core products using technology from many well known companies e.g. intel amd nvidia broadcom and many more . notable design wins include that of dawning corporation for the fastest supercomputer twice ; first to market with a dual amd athlon mp server platform ; and winner of the maximum pc kick ass award twice for their contributions to the dream machine most recently the 2005 edition . tyan is headquartered in taipei taiwan separated between three buildings in the nei hu industrial district . all three buildings belong to the parent company mitac . the north american headquarters are in fremont california which was also the previous corporate headquarters before the merger . the merger in question was with mitac a taiwanese oem which develops and produces a range of products including servers notebooks consumer electronics products networking and educational products as well as providing contract manufacturing services was announced in march 2007 1 and completed on october 1 of that year . under the umbrella of mitac tyan acts as the brand leader and core engineering and marketing arm for delivery of server and workstation products to the distribution and reseller channel and continues to act as a design and production services house for oem customers . mitac international corp. spun off the cloud computing business group to the newly incorporated mitac computing technology corporation on september 1 2014 . tyan is a leading server brand of mitac computing technology corp. under the mitac group . 2 tyan launched the first openpower reference system based on the ibm power8 architecture in oct 2014 . tyan is one of the founding members of the openpower foundation which was established in 2013 . 3 4 external links edit tyan computer corp. mitac.com tyan s parent company tyan s chinese website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tyan & oldid 730790593 categories companies established in 1989motherboard companiescompanies of taiwanelectronics companies of taiwan navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinafran aispolskiportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 21 july 2016 at 03 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view