Silicon Week: Alienware: ‘We didn’t build the Graphics Amplifier to be a one-hit wonder’

By Kane Fulton

Alienware has now been going for more than 20 years, and it’s been a decade since the company partnered with Dell to work together on increasingly ambitious gaming machines. The Miami, US-based company makes aspirational products loaded with power, built with otherworldly designs and carrying premium price tags to match.

According to its co-founder and General Manager Frank Azor, Alienware has fostered an ambition innovation and had a drive to make the best gaming PCs in the business from the very start, even if its core team didn’t quite know what they were doing in the early years.

We caught up with Azor to dig deep into the company’s history while finding out about newer products – from the Alpha R2 Steam machine to its Graphics Amplifier, Aurora R5 gaming desktop and VR backpack.

TechRadar: Alienware has been going for more than 20 years now. It was the first company to launch an 11-inch gaming laptop, build a Steam Machine and create an external GPU enclosure. Which “first” are you most proud of?

Frank Azor: I think it has to be the launch of the Predator chassis, the desktop case we launched that really defined the look of Alienware back in …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming