| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | 43951 Boscell Road, Fremont, California, 94538 |
| Products | Disk enclosure, Laptop cooler, Computer cooling, Computer power supply and more |
| Website | www.VantecUSA.com |
Vantec Thermal Technologies is a privately held multinational corporation with headquarters and an R&D team in the US, sales/purchasing office in Taiwan and factories in Taiwan, Korea and China. Vantec designs and manufactures thermal products and computer peripherals. Consumers can buy Vantec products from brick-and-mortar electronics stores or online retailers. The company does not sell to end-users directly.
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Vantec was founded in 1994 in Fremont, CA.[1] The company started as a manufacturer of CPU cooling fans for system integrators and end-users. In the late 1990s, Vantec gained recognition notably in overclocking AMD processors.
The company launched TMD Tip-Magnetic Driving CPU cooling fans in 2002. The popularity of quiet home entertainment computers made this product line advantageous Vantec. In the same year, Vantec also introduced the NXP-101 multi-function front panel. This product is the first on the market with front USB and Firewire ports. It became a standard on many current computer cases.
In 2002, the company introduced its first computer power supply unit (PSU), which was first on the consumer market with three cooling fans and a black brushed aluminum casing.[2] This design became popular for high-end power supplies as the heat and power consumption from high-performance video cards increased. Vantec has carried external hard disk enclosures since 2004. The NexStar 3 series enclosures were the first external hard drive enclosures on the market to adopt mirror-finished double-coated aluminum casings with a variety of colors (black, blue, red and silver).
The company moved to a new facility in 2004 within the Pacific Commons Shopping Center where it is adjacent to a Costco and the future Cisco Field ballpark of the Oakland Athletics.
Vantec products are distributed worldwide. The US headquarters manages the North American markets. The Taiwan branch manages European, South American and Asian countries including Australia and New Zealand.