Tyan Computer Corporation (泰安電腦科技股份有限公司; also known as Tyan Business Unit, or TBU) is a subsidiary of

MiTAC MiTAC Holdings Corporation, formerly MiTAC International Corp. () is a Taiwanese electronics company established 8 December 1982. It is a subsidiary of MiTAC-Synnex Group. Through a 100% stock swap from MiTAC International Corp., MiTAC Holdings ...

International, and a manufacturer of computer

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s, including models for both AMD and

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processors. They develop and produce high-end

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SMP SMP may refer to: Organisations * Scale Model Products, 1950s, acquired by Aluminum Model Toys * School Mathematics Project, UK developer of mathematics textbooks * '' Sekolah Menengah Pertama'', "junior high school" in Indonesia * Shanghai Mun ...

, and desktop barebones systems as well as provide design and production services to tier 1 global

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s, and a number of other regional OEMs.

Founding

The company was founded in 1989 by Dr. T. Symon Chang, a veteran of IBM and

. 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

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-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.

, AMD,

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and many more). Notable design wins include that of Dawning corporation for the fastest supercomputer (twice); first to market with a dual AMD

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server platform; winner of the ''

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'' Kick-Ass Award (twice) for their contributions to the Dream Machine (most recently, the 2005 edition); and first to market with an eight (8) GPU server platform (the FT72-B7015).

Later company history

Tyan is headquartered in

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, separated between three buildings in the Nei-Hu industrial district. All three buildings belong to the parent company,

. The North American headquarter is in

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, which is the same North American headquarter for

. The merger in question was with MiTAC, a Taiwanese

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 200

and completed on October 1 of that year. Under the umbrella of

, 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.

International Corp. spun off the Cloud Computing Business Group to the newly incorporated MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation on 1 September 2014. TYAN is a leading server brand of MiTAC Computing Technology Corp. under the MiTAC Group

TYAN launched the firs
OpenPOWER
reference system based on the IBM

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architecture in Oct 2014. TYAN is one of the founding members of the

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, which was established in 2013.

External links

Tyan Computer Corp.

MiTAC.com
Tyan's parent company
Tyan's Chinese website
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