Guillemot was created 1986 as Ubisoft of the five Guillemot brothers. At first in France plays were driven out by electronics kind, Sierra on-line one or Microprose. But end of the 80erer years expanded they among other things to Germany, into the USA and to Great Britain.

The Guillemot brothers recognized center of the 90's the fact that plays need also an appropriate hardware and started under the Guillemot fire with sound maps (Maxi sound). Later the Portfolio with Voodoo Grafikkarten was extended. After the economic problems of 3Dfx Guillemot decided 2000 to take up NVidia and started with TNT M64 and the GeForce series. At this time Guillemot bought the Hercules label and called its products from now on Hercules 3D prophet. Further also the sound section, whatever meanwhile loudspeaker contained, under the Hercules fire was led. End of 2001 also TFT monitors were added. At the same time Guillemot took over the American play input device manufacturer Thrustmaster.

At the beginning of of 2001 came it to the break with NVidia and Guillemot decided to use the Kyro Grafikchip of ST Micro. from this 3D prophet 4000 and 3D prophet 4500 resulted. Guillemot could not bring the several times announced successor to 3D prophet 4800 on the market. Therefore Guillemot decided 2002 to take up ATI as chip suppliers and started with the Radeon 7500 universe in Wonder and Radeon 8500 universe in Wonder.

By change of the selling model, sinking margins and internal restructuring Guillemot at the beginning of of 2003 stopped the diagram business. To reconciliation the division was expanded on the range of DJ-products. Meanwhile the main business distributes itself on two marks: Hercules with DJ-products, sound of pro and WLAN ProduktenThrustmaster with Gaming accessories for PC and consoles

The German address has its seat in and Head OF Sales is up-to-date Andreas marketing by Christian Reul is led.

Articles in category "Guillemot"

We found here 6 articles.