HKEPC announces that PC Partner, a Hong Kong-based company, will move its headquarters to Singapore, forming PC Partner Singapore PTE Ltd. The company, which produces graphics processors under brands such as Zotac, Inno3D and Manli, is also reportedly moving its production facilities to Indonesia. The GPU maker has apparently changed its base and production in time for the launch of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards, waiving any expected high-tech export controls imposed on China by the US Department of Commerce.
The recent listing of PC Partner Group Limited (PCT) on the Singapore Stock Exchange SGX provides evidence to support HKEPC’s claims. However, HKEPC stated that the transfer of production from China to Indonesia was a rumor.
The name PC Partner may not be very well known to youthful people because components from the same brand, founded in 1997, were not widely distributed in the West in the 1920s. However, some of us remember inexpensive motherboards from this company from several dozen years ago. PC Partner also previously produced reference Radeon graphics cards for AMD, so the company is by no means featherlight.
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In 2024, PC Partner will probably become an even more crucial player in the PC components industry, managing sub-brands such as Zotac, Inno3D and Manli. These are all crucial graphics card players for PCs, although some are not very popular in the US market. According to HKEPC, the combination of all brands makes PC Partner the “second largest graphics card manufacturer in the world.”
US sanctions on powerful GPUs have already hit PC Partner in the RTX 40-series era, and it appears the company has decided it’s worth the time, effort and money to root out its business before the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series (Blackwell) attack entirely.
Being based and operating in non-sanctioned territories, we will see plenty of Zotac-branded RTX 5090 graphics cards sold here in the West and other cordial territories. Given the expected performance gains for the entire RTX 50 family, it may even be the case that RTX 5080 products are too advanced or too powerful to avoid sanctions. All this uncertainty should be eliminated when it comes to the further development of PC Partner’s business.
