View Sonic
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| Private | |
| Industry | Computer |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Headquarters | Brea, California, United States |
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Key people
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James Chu, Founder, CEO |
| Products | Computer display |
| Revenue |
 $1.2 billion (2011) USD
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| Website | www.viewsonic.com |
ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid-crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini and All-in-One PCs and wireless monitors to Asus, Acer and much more.
The privately held company has approximately $1 billion in worldwide sales annually. ViewSonic's headquarters are located in Brea, California, United States.
The company was initially founded as Keypoint Technology Corporation in 1987 by James Chu. In 1990 it launched the ViewSonic line of color computer monitors, and shortly afterwards the company renamed itself after its brand.
The ViewSonic logo features Gouldian finches, colorful birds native to Australia.
In the mid-1990s, ViewSonic rose to become one of the top-rated makers of computer CRT monitors, alongside Sony, NEC, MAG Innovision, and Panasonic. ViewSonic soon displaced the rest of these companies to emerge as the largest display manufacturer from America/Japan at the turn of the millennium.
In 2000, ViewSonic acquired the Nokia Display Products' branded business.
In 2005, ViewSonic and Tatung won a British patent lawsuit filed against them by LG Philips in a dispute over which company created technology for rear mounting of LCDs in a mobile PC (U.K. Patent GB2346464B, titled “portable computer").
In 2007 ViewSonic launched its General Support Center (GSC) in Wuhan, China. GSC, specialized in finance, customer service, sales support, supply chain management and Excel related services and business process integration. GSC, enable ViewSonic to concentrate on their core areas, while outsourcing their non-core areas of business GSC.
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