MSI

MSI, or Micro-Star International Co., Ltd., is a Taiwanese multinational information technology company known for its computer hardware. Headquartered in New Taipei City, MSI develops and markets products for consumers, gamers, and businesses, including motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktops, servers, and embedded systems.

Founded in 1986, MSI grew to become a major supplier of motherboard and graphics-card technology. It maintains design centers and regional offices around the world and operates its own manufacturing in Asia to support a global supply chain.

Product lines include gaming-focused laptops and desktops under the Dragon/Gaming brand, as well as barebones systems and industrial motherboards. MSI also distributes peripherals and software, such as MSI Center (formerly Dragon Center) for system monitoring and tuning, and MSI Afterburner for GPU overclocking.

The company collaborates with major chipset and component providers, including NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, and competes with other motherboard and gaming-PC manufacturers. It emphasizes design, performance, and multimedia capabilities and supports a global network of partners, distributors, and service centers.

MSI also refers to the Windows Installer package file format (.msi), used by the Microsoft Windows operating system to install software.