MiTAC International Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, was founded in 1982. The Corporation began as an exclusive manufacturer of PCs, and has since become a world-class supplier of IT products. Foreseeing the efficiencies made possible by the growth of the Internet, MiTAC has made further progress in positioning itself as a major integrated networking solution provider and becoming an e-centric corporation. The Corporation has achieved a very impressive revenue growth in the past five years, from US$519 million in 1997 to more than 4,700 billion in 2001. A global company with more than 14,000 employees worldwide, MiTAC has been a public company since 1990.