Chaintech Computer Co. Lt., founded in November 1986, is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer. The company renamed itself Walton Chaintech Corporation in October 2005. Chaintech employs approximately 1,100 people all over the world. It is best known for manufacturing graphics cards and motherboards, although it also produces sound cards, modems and memory modules. Besides its Taipei headquarters in Taiwan, Chaintech has eight branch offices in Hong-Kong, Beijing and Shenzhen (China), Korea, Sydney (Australia), California (United States), Paris (France) and Moscow (Russia).