Public EPA:JXR | |
Industry | Consumer electronics |
Founded | October 4, 1989 |
Founder | Henri Crohas |
Headquarters | Archos Zone Industrielle, 12 rue Ampère 91430, Igny, France |
Number of locations
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8 office locations (2013) |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Key people
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Henri Crohas, Chairman of the Board & CEO; Loic Porier, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Operations and Finance; Marc de Courville, Director of Software Engineering; |
Products | Portable media players, tablet computers, hard disks, PDAs, Smartphones |
Revenue | €154.9 million (2012) |
€ -23.5 million | |
€ -38.7 million | |
Website | www |
Archos (/ˈɑːrkoʊs/, stylized as ARCHOS) is a French multinational electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures tablets, smartphones, portable media players and portable data storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name, and it is also Greek for "master" (αρχος). The company's slogan has been updated from "Think Smaller" to "On The Go" and the current "Entertainment your way".
Archos has developed a variety of products, including digital audio players, portable video players (PVP), digital video recorders, a personal digital assistant, netbooks, more recently tablet computers using Google Android and Microsoft Windows (tablet PCs), and smartphones.
In 2013, the company entered the mobile phone market by launching a series of smartphone models in the market. Archos Titanium, Archos Platinum, Archos Neon, Archos Xenon, Archos Cesium, Archos Oxygen, Archos Helium, and Archos Diamond.
The Archos 9 PC Tablet is a 9" tablet computer launched October 22, 2009 and contains Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.