Ritek

RITEK Corporation
Type	Public^[1]
Industry	Computer Hardware Optical Media, Flash Memory, Green Product
Founded	December 29, 1988
Headquarters	Hsinchu Industrial Park, Taiwan
Key people	Chairman: Jintai Yeh CEO: Gorden Yeh Deputy CEO：Jennifer Yang
Products	Optical Storage, Flash Memory, DRAM Modules, Portable Hard-Drive,Power Bank, PV Modules & System , LED Product, AMOLED&OLED Display, ITO Glass, Touch Panel, NANO-Technology Product, BIO-Technology Product, Plastic Product
Revenue	990 million USD (2013)
Number of employees	3723 (Taiwan)
Subsidiaries	RITEK Foundation PVNEXT Corporation AIMCORE Corporation (Public) U-TECH Corporation (Public) UCHAIN Logistics. Co., LTD. Prorit Corporation RiTdisplay Corporation RiteDia Corporation Gigastorage Corporation (Public) GigaSolar Corporation (Public) CASHIDO Corporation RitFast Corporation Kunshan Zhonglai Electronic Technology Co., LTD. Hutek Corporation Advance Media Inc. Conrexx Technology Ritrax Corp. Ltd.(U.K.) Sunmark Corp. Ltd. Chyitek Co. Ltd. RME Manufacturing Gmbh. Citrine Group Ltd. Glory Days Services Ltd.
Website	www.ritek.com

RITEK is a Taiwanese consumer electronics group specializing in Optical Media Products, Flash Memory, MP3 Player, Power Bank, Solar Panel, Solar Systems, LED Products, AMOLED&OLED Display and Plastic Products.^[2]

History

Canadian RiDATA Trademark

RITEK Corporation was established on 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 DVDs.^[3]

The RIDATA Trademark is listed on the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) online database and registered under RITEK CORPORATION, No. 42, Kuanfu N. Road, Hsin Chu Industrial Park, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Trademarks

RITEK、RIDATA、Traxdata、MyEco、ARITA

Locations

Taiwan： Xinzhuang, Chungli, Hsinchu, Miaoli
China： Yangzhou, Nanjing, Kunshan
Vietnam： Hồ Chí Min
Korea： Cheongwon
Japan： Tokyo
Australia: Sydney
Nederland： Ridderkerk
U.S.A： Silicon Valley，Los Angeles
North Africa： Tunisia

Products

RITEK produces CD-R, DVD-R, BD-R, Optical Storage, Flash Memory, Power Bank, PV Panel, PV System, LED Products, AMOLED&OLED Display.

Recording media

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

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, BD-R, 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, 2009-. Ritek is currently manufacturing DVD+R and Double Layer DVD+R media for TDK (2008).

RITEK's own brands include RIDATA, Traxdata, and 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]

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]

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]

RITEK Foundation

RITEK Foundation was established by RITEK Corporation Chairman Jintai Yeh in 1999.

References

External links

Ritek Corporation's web site

Coordinates: 24°52′17″N 121°1′13″E / 24.87139°N 121.02028°E / 24.87139; 121.02028