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Ritek Corporation
Type	Public TSEC:2357)
Founded	December 29, 1988
Headquarters	Hsin-Chu Industrial Park, Taiwan
Key people	CEO + MD: Chuijing Ye, Chairman: Jintai Ye, Managing Director: Zijiang Yang
Industry	Computer hardware Optical Media, Flash memory,
Products	CD-R, DVD-R, Optical Storage, Memory, Mp3 player, OLED Display
Revenue	▲ 702 million USD (2005)
Employees	3723 (2005)
Website	www.ritek.com

Ritek Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics group specializing in optical media products, flash memory, mp3 player, OLED display and plastics.^[1]

1 History
2 Location
3 Products
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Canadian RiDATA Trademark

Ritek Corporation was established in December 29, 1989. It produced the first CD in Taiwan in 1990 and the first DVD in Taiwan in 1996. Since then Ritek has become the biggest manufacturer of optical storage media. Currently, it also produces HD-DVD media for consumers.^[2]

Ritek owns Ridata and the Traxdata brands. It also includes the major subsidiary U-Tech which produces RFID chips and DVD discs.^[3]

The RiData Trademark is listed on the Canadian Intelectual Property Office (CIPO) online database and registered under RITEK CORPORATION, No. 42, Kuanfu N. Road, Hsin Chu Industrial Park, Taiwan, CHINA.[1]

[edit] Location

The head office of Ritek is located in Taiwan at 24°52′17″N, 121°1′13″E.[2]

[edit] Products

Ritek produces 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.^{[citation needed]}

Media types produced by Ritek include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, Magneto-optical_drive media and MiniDisc.

Ritek-manufactured media is sold by different companies under many brands, including Fujifilm, Maxell, Memorex, Philips and Verbatim. It was also sold under the TDK brand from 2001–03.

Ritek's own brands include Ridata, Traxdata, and low-cost Arita.

Confusingly, Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision are not Ritek brands, but instead come from E-net, a company also known for Datawrite, Datasafe and Tuffdisc brands. Note that the Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision brands do nevertheless sometimes sell discs which use Ritek media. (Other of their products use CMC Magnetics media.)^[4]

[edit] Flash Memory

Ritek produces 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.^[5]

[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.^[6]