Elsa Technology is the name of a computer hardware

Computer hardware

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 company. Originally founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG, it was a German

Germany

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 company manufacturing video cards and other peripherals for Personal Computer

Personal computer

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s. In 2002, the German company filed for bankruptcy while its Taiwan

Taiwan

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ese subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc. Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo

Devolo

devolo AG was founded on 1 May 2002 in Aachen, Germany, and specialises in the development of communications devices for private consumers and industrial applications...

 and Lancom.