founded 2001 headquarters sha tin new town hong kong products motherboards graphics cards website www.sapphiretech.com sapphire technology chinese is a hong kong based technology company founded in 2001 which produces graphics cards for personal computers and workstations motherboards tv tuner cards digital audio players 1 and lcdtvs 2 sapphire s products are based on amd graphics processing units and both amd ati and intel motherboard chipset technology . the company is the largest supplier of amd based video cards in the world . 3 4 sapphire was the first company to release a video card with a high definition multimedia interface hdmi connector . 5 sapphire was the first company to release a video card having clock speed of 1000 mhz 1 ghz with the release of the sapphire atomic edition hd 4890 . contents 1 manufacturing facilities 1.1 manufacturing process 2 references 3 external links manufacturing facilities edit as of 2007 sapphire has two iso 9001 and iso 14001 certified manufacturing facilities in dongguan china which have a monthly production capacity of 1.8 million video cards . 4 the manufacturing facility had an area of about 250 000 m used by 16 independent production lines as of may 2005 . manufacturing process edit sapphire buys printed circuit boards pcb the basic part of a graphics card from an external contractor . the next step in the process is placement of the surface mount device smd components . this is performed by a fully automated placement machine . soldering is performed using the reflow soldering method . 6 it then uses amd graphics technology to place the memory and gpu required for the specific graphic card . references edit sapphiretech.com sapphire contact us tgdaily sapphire joins the 2160p lcd tv party sapphire ati s 100 % partner at digital daily.com a b welcome to the sapphire family at sapphiretech.com sapphire releases world s first graphics card with hdmi at x bit labs sapphire factory tour at techpowerup.com external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to sapphire technology . official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sapphire technology & oldid 695864811 categories electronics companiescomputer hardware companiesgraphics hardware companiesmotherboard companieselectronics companies of hong konghong kong brandshidden categories articles containing chinese language textcommons category with local link same as on wikidatacompanies with year of establishment missing 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 danskdeutschespa olfran aisitalianopolskirom n t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 19 december 2015 at 05 31 . 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