MSI (Micro-Star International) - Taiwan-based company, one of the world leaders in the field of computer technology. The company is engaged in production servers, desktop, and server motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, netbooks, network equipment, Barebone-systems, optical devices and other consumer electronics. The company is among the three largest manufacturers of motherboards (Asus, MSI, Gigabyte).
Despite the fact that the company has been operating since 1986, to manufacture products under its own brand, it only started in the second half of the 1990s. 50% MSI products manufactures for OEM-market.
For example, such well-known companies such as Acer, Dell, and Hewlett Packard often bought large batches of components in the MSI to build their own products.