Arctic (company)
| Private, GmbH | |
| Industry | |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Braunschweig |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Magnus Huber (Managing director) |
| Products | |
| Website | www |
Arctic GmbH, formerly known as Arctic Cooling, is a manufacturer of computer cooling components, mainly CPU and graphics card coolers, case fans and thermal compound. Since 2010, Arctic expanded its business by starting a range of products to cater other consumer demands beyond that of computer cooling hardware. Nowadays, Arctic also offers various consumer products—spanning audio, home entertainment,computer peripherals and RC toys. In 2012, Arctic was nominated as one of the finalists in the annual PCR Awards.
Founded in 2001, Arctic has offices in Germany, Hong Kong, the United States cooperates with different production facilities in China. Arctic products are distributed worldwide through distributors, dealers and retailers. The United States, United Kingdom and Germany are Arctic’s major markets. The company has also collaborated with leading graphics card brands such as HIS, Inno3D,PowerColor VTX3D and Sapphire in the development of OEM cooling equipment.
In 2001 Arctic Cooling was founded in Switzerland by Magnus Huber and Gebhard Scherrer. As the company name suggested, in the past, the business focused entirely on computer cooling solutions. Today, in order to expand the business into other areas especially in consumer electronics, by 2010, it began to develop a diverse range of products that spans beyond cooling into computer peripherals, audio products and home entertainment PCs. For this reason, Arctic Cooling was changed to Arctic in 2010. Since 17.11.2015 Arctic Switzerland AG is in liquidation.
Arctic Cooling logo
Arctic Cooling shield
logo used from 2010 until January 2017
Being the company's original focus, Arctic designs and manufactures cooling products for computer hardware.
and broad compatibility. The company owned a number of patents for its fan and cooler designs as well as for special technologies used in the air coolers including PWM sharing, low noise impeller, cross blow and anti-vibration technologies.
Accelero is a trademark of ARCTIC (formerly Arctic Cooling) for its line of graphics card coolers. The Accelero line of coolers are targeted to high-end graphics cards based on GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. The Accelero series utilizes different types of cooling technologies namely air cooling, passive cooling as well as air and liquid combined cooling to offer different options for different customers. In 2006, Accelero X1 and Accelero X2 are the first VGA coolers introduced in the series by the manufacturer. The Accelero series has collaborated in a number of OEM projects with motherboard and video card manufacturers to develop customized graphics card cooling solutions. ARCTIC is the first video card cooler manufacturer to use a copper base for their heatsinks.
In May 2012, ARCTIC released the Accelero Hybrid, which is claimed to be the world’s first graphics card cooler with integrated air and liquid solution in the market.
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