ADLINK Technology celebrates 20 years

ADLINK Technology, Inc. is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. The company opened its doors in August 1995 in Taipei with the goal of advancing technologies in the fields of test and measurement (T&M), applied computing and automation.

Since then, ADLINK has expanded its offices to 11 locations worldwide, employs more than 1600 people and has established a local development centre in each major region that it serves, including EMEA, the Americas, China and Asia-Pacific. Moreover, ADLINK has seen an average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17% over the last decade, surpassing that of its larger, more established competitors.

The company’s focus has broadened from developing hardware building blocks to creating application-ready intelligent platforms (ARIPs) and system-level solutions across embedded form factors and vertical markets. ADLINK has actively participated in the advancement of industry standards to help shape specifications in line with what has been voiced by its customers, including chairing or otherwise serving on committees for PICMG (including AdvancedTCA and COM Express), the PC/104 Consortium, the PXISA (PXI Systems Alliance), the AXIe Consortium, the SGeT (Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) for Mobile Edge Computing.

Over the past 20 years, ADLINK has evolved from a T&M instrument supplier to offering robust, reliable solutions in industrial automation, health care, defence, transportation, communications and infotainment, in addition to growing its market share in T&M. Recently, ADLINK entered into an agreement with Agilent Technologies to increase collaboration and investment, which has been integral in ADLINK’s creation of five new technology labs for in-house product validation and verification. In addition, ADLINK has risen in the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance to become a premier member.

“Twenty years is a significant milestone for any company, and, as the second-largest industrial PC vendor in Asia, ADLINK is focused on expanding our partner ecosystem which we will build together with for years to come,” said Jim Liu, founder and CEO of ADLINK. “Our emphasis on being a global company with localised support and design services has allowed us to better serve our customers, whose application requirements become more and more complex each year. Now we are developing application-ready offerings that enable our customers to focus on their core competency, which is developing customised applications that meet their business goals.”

With the ushering in of the IoT age and Industry 4.0, ADLINK will continue to use its experience and knowledge to develop offerings that meet the latest trends towards mobility, automation and intelligence in end-point devices.