Sparkle Computer

{{Short description|Taiwanese electronics firm}}

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| name = Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd.

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| type = Private

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1982}}

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| location_city = Taipei

| location_country = Taiwan

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| area_served = Worldwide

| industry = Computer hardware

| products = Graphics cards, consumer electronics

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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.sparkle.com.tw}}

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Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. (stylised as SPARKLE) is a Taiwanese electronics firm established in 1982, based in Taipei. The company specialized in manufacturing video cards using Nvidia graphics processing units, and peripherals (fans and heatsinks) for graphics controllers.{{cite web|url=http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/sparkle-geforce-gtx-650-ti-dragon-review,1.html|title=Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti review - Introduction|work=Guru3D|accessdate=27 April 2015}}

Sparkle was one of the few manufacturers of modern discrete video cards that used the PCI bus, producing PCI versions of GeForce 8 series and GeForce 9 series based discrete graphics controllers, and, more recently, GeForce 200 series and GeForce 600 series-based GPUs using the aforementioned interface.{{cite web|url=http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4369747|title=Sparkle SP94GT1024D2LHP GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI, DVI, VGA|work=TigerDirect|accessdate=27 April 2015}}

In April 2023, Sparkle re-entered the graphics card market, this time producing a set of Intel Arc series graphics cards.{{cite news |last1=Klotz |first1=Aaron |title=Sparkle Returns to the GPU Landscape, With Three Intel Arc GPUs |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sparkle-returns-to-the-gpu-landscape-launches-three-intel-arc-cards |access-date=30 April 2023 |work=Tom's Hardware |date=26 April 2023 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20230430203254/https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sparkle-returns-to-the-gpu-landscape-launches-three-intel-arc-cards |archivedate=2023-04-30}}{{cite news |last1=Mujtaba |first1=Hassan |title=Graphics Card Maker, Sparkle, Joins Team Blue: First Custom Intel Arc A750 & A380 Designs Revealed |url=https://wccftech.com/graphics-card-maker-sparkle-join-team-blue-first-custom-intel-arc-a750-a380-designs-revealed/ |access-date=30 April 2023 |work=Wccftech |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230430204653/https://wccftech.com/graphics-card-maker-sparkle-join-team-blue-first-custom-intel-arc-a750-a380-designs-revealed/ |archive-date=2023-04-30}}