RITEK Corporation

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RITEK Corporation is a Taiwanese electronics company.

1 Products
2 History
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Products

Ritek is best known for producing recordable CD and DVD media, flash memory, displays and plastics.

[edit] Recording Media

Ritek is one of the world's largest CD and DVD media producers.

Among the types of recording media produced by Ritek, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, MO media and MD media can be found.

Ritek media is sold by many brands, including Fujifilm, Maxell, Memorex, Philips and Verbatim.
Ridata, Traxdata, and low-cost Arita are Ritek's own brands. Although the name suggests so, Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision are not Ritek's brands, but brands from E-net (also known for Datawrite, Datasafe and Tuffdisc). However, the Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision brands do sell Ritek media, in addition to CMC Magnetics media.

[edit] The RITEK G05 incident

Ritek's 8x DVD-R (Ritek G05) became infamous in 2005 when it was discovered that many, especially low-cost (but not all) Ritek G05 discs had stability issues causing them to become unreadable, sometimes in only a few weeks. Late Ritek G04 media (4x DVD-R), which had a different dye color than earlier G04 media, was also affected. It is believed that changes in the production have been causing the stability issues.

This stability issue concerned mostly Ritek G05 discs sold under budget brands like Arita and unbranded discs. Discs from brands like Maxell were less, but still affected.

[edit] Flash Memory

Ritek is producing many types, sub-types and flavors of flash memory cards, including CompactFlash, SD cards, unbalanced SD cards, MMC cards, and RS-MMC cards.

USB flash dongles ("EZ Drive") are also made by Ritek.

[edit] Displays

The first Taiwanese OLED screen was made by Ritek. RiTdisplay Corporation is a spin-off and member of the Ritek Group dedicated to display research and manufacturing.