Private company

ELSA Technology

Logo: ELSA Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

German computer hardware company

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 while its Taiwanese subsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc. Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo and LANCOM Systems.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2003Founded1
  • Industrycomputer hardware industry1
  • HeadquartersTaipei1
  • Websitewww.elsa.com
ELSA MicroLink 56k analog telephone modem
Photo: File:Elsa Modems IMGP0424.JPG : Johann H. Addicks - addicks@gmx.net derivative work: Pittigrilli, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons4

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 while its Taiwanese subsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc. Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo and LANCOM Systems. The ELSA name also continues under the ELSA Japan Inc., which had been founded as a joint venture in 1997, and runs independently since 2002.2

Products and brands

  • graphics card

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2003Founded Founded1