Palit Microsystems

Palit Microsystems is a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer headquartered in Taipei that has produced discrete graphics cards for more than three decades, tracing its founding to 1988. The company describes itself as one of NVIDIA's largest authorized add-in-board (AIB) partners, designing and manufacturing graphics accelerators built around NVIDIA GPU chipsets for the global consumer and gaming market. Its research and design team operates out of its Taipei headquarters, while manufacturing takes place at a factory in Shenzhen, China, established in 1992; the company also runs a logistics center in Hong Kong and a branch office in Germany to support European distribution. In 2005 Palit expanded its portfolio by acquiring the Gainward brand along with Gainward Europe GmbH for roughly one million US dollars, and it has since operated multiple graphics card brands in parallel, including Palit, Gainward, Galaxy (marketed as GALAX), and KFA2, targeting different regional markets and price segments. By 2013 the company had grown to become the largest graphics card vendor by shipment volume, surpassing ASUSTek, with reported monthly production capacity of around 1.2 million units across its brands. Palit's current product lineup centers on the GeForce RTX 50, 40, and 30 series graphics cards, sold under sub-brand lines such as GameRock, GamingPro, DUAL, JetStream, Infinity, StormX, and KalmX, aimed at gamers, content creators doing video editing and 3D design, and live streamers. In July 2026 the company launched the GeForce RTX 3060 Infinity 2 OC card, continuing to refresh its 30-series lineup alongside newer generations. Beyond consumer gaming graphics cards, Palit also manufactures NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX Super and Jetson Orin Nano Super edge-AI compute modules under its Pandora product line, positioning the company as a supplier of embedded AI compute hardware used in robotics, edge inference, and other AI-accelerated applications. The company supports its hardware with proprietary software tools, including ThunderMaster for card tuning and monitoring and an ARGB Sync utility for RGB lighting control across its products. Palit's brand name is derived from the word palette, reflecting its origins in graphics and video card manufacturing.