Elsa Technology

ELSA
Industry	Computer
Founded	1980; 46 years ago (originally); 2002 (ELSA Technology Inc.); 1997 (ELSA Japan Inc.)
Headquarters	Aachen, Germany (originally); Taipei, Taiwan (ELSA Technology Inc.); Tokyo, Japan (ELSA Japan Inc.)
Products	Graphics cards
Website	www.elsa-jp.co.jp

Elsa Technology is a computer hardware company. It was founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG, a German company manufacturing video cards and other peripherals for Personal Computers. In 2002, the German company filed for bankruptcy^[1] while its Taiwanese subsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc.^[2] Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo^[3] and LANCOM Systems.^[1] The ELSA name also continues under the ELSA Japan Inc., which had been founded as a joint venture in 1997, and runs independently since 2002.^[4]