History & Timeline:
MSI Founded 4 August 1986
By Founders :
Joseph Hsu
Jeans Huang
Frank Lin
Kenny Yu
Henry Lu
1985 : Sony's corporate downsizing in 1985 brought the founders together.
1986 : MSI was established, focusing on the design and manufacture of Mainboards and Add-on Cards.
1988 : MSI moved its production facility to Ho-Ping W. Rd. Taipei, Taiwan.
1997 : Inaugurated the MSI Plant I in Jung-He, the suburb of Taipei.
1998 : MSI became a public company with an Initial Public Offering on the Taipei Stock Exchange.
2000 : MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. was founded.
2002 : MSI Inaugurated its EU Hub in the Netherlands.
2008 : MSI was ranked among the Top 20 Taiwan Global Brands.
2011 : MSI was named one of the Top 100 Taiwan Brands, distinguished among 500 brands.
An MSI Z270 GAMING motherboard.
2013 : MSI has been awarded from Taiwan Excellence for 15 consecutive years.
2015 : MSI was ranked the fourth-best laptop brand of 2015 by Laptop magazine.
An MSI panocam, a type of panoramic camera.
2016 : MSI was the largest gaming laptop supplier worldwide.
The MSI booth as seen at the IT Month 2016 Taipei.
2017 : MSI launched "Join the Dragon" team sponsorship program to discover talented eSports teams.
2018 : MSI wins 5 awards with 4 products in Computex 2018 best choice awards.
2019 : World’s Fastest Growing Gaming Monitor Brand MSI Wins 5 Best Choice Awards in COMPUTEX 2019.