Sapphire Technology

Manufacturer
Component Supplier

Hong Kong-based AMD Radeon GPU manufacturer expanding into embedded robotics compute with its EDGE+ Apex Ryzen AI platform.

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Company Overview

SAPPHIRE Technology Limited is a Hong Kong-based computer hardware manufacturer founded in 2001 and headquartered in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, with manufacturing operations at an ISO 9001- and ISO 14001-certified facility in Dongguan, China, historically capable of producing up to 1.8 million video cards per month. The company is widely described as the world's largest supplier of AMD Radeon-based graphics cards, and it holds several industry firsts, including the first video card equipped with an HDMI port and the first video card to reach a 1 GHz core clock speed (the SAPPHIRE Atomic Edition Radeon HD 4890). Its core product lines include TOXIC, NITRO+, PURE, and PULSE branded Radeon graphics cards for gaming, esports, and professional workstation use, as well as NITRO+, PURE, PULSE, and SAPPHIRE-branded AM4/AM5 motherboards. The company also produces cooling solutions, including all-in-one CPU coolers, and maintains its own TriXX GPU tuning software and TriXX-M motherboard management utility. Beyond consumer graphics, SAPPHIRE has built out a commercial and embedded computing division under the EDGE and EDGE+ (Embedded+) product families, which include compact mini-ITX systems such as the RAVE1 and RAVE2, along with PoE-powered NUC-style boards aimed at industrial, digital-signage, and edge-computing deployments. The company has also supplied GPU compute server systems for blockchain and cryptocurrency mining operations during periods of high crypto-mining demand. As of August 2026, SAPPHIRE expanded its embedded computing lineup with the EDGE+ Apex, described in company communications as a robotics platform built around AMD Ryzen AI processors, extending its existing mini-ITX and embedded board expertise into on-device AI compute for robotics and edge-AI integrators. This positions SAPPHIRE as a component and compute-platform supplier to robotics system builders rather than a robot manufacturer itself, leveraging its two decades of AMD partnership and embedded-systems manufacturing experience to offer AI-capable compute modules for robotic and edge-inference applications. The company's website operates in eight languages, reflecting its distribution reach across gaming, embedded, and, more recently, robotics-adjacent commercial markets.

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Manufacturing

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Compute & Chips

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Contact Sapphire Technology

WEBSITE

https://www.sapphiretech.com

EMAIL

[email protected]

PHONE

+852 2687 8888

HEADQUARTERS

Sha Tin
Sha Tin , New Territories  999077

China

Company Facts

Founded

2001

Primary Role

Manufacturer

Company Size

employees 50-100

Primary Region

Asia-Pacific

Annual Sales

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Funding Stage

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Funding Total

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Keywords

  • Sapphire Technology
  • AMD Radeon GPU
  • graphics card manufacturer
  • EDGE+ Apex
  • Ryzen AI
  • embedded computing
  • edge AI
  • mini-ITX
  • robotics platform
  • Manufacturer
  • Component Supplier
  • Compute & Chips
  • Manufacturing
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