Enta Technologies Ltd, distributor of personal computer components and a notebook supplier, has brought a little of Taiwan to Telford, Shropshire. The company, founded in 1990 by managing director Jason Tsai, has moved into new premises, built in the style of a Chinese Pagoda. The site, which boasts a Chinese garden and a lake with carp, cost ú6m and was apparently funded by Tsai’s personal money. Within the unusual building are the usual head offices, warehouse and assembly plant but in addition there is a Chinese school set up as a charity by Tsai. Since 1990, when the company employed about 12 people and had a first year turnover of ú3m, it has grown to almost 100 people and now claims turnover of nearly ú40m. Enta is an importer and distributor for most types of personal computer component, including Sony Corp and Hitachi Ltd disk drives and Aztech Systems Ltd multimedia products, and supplies other distributors such as Ideal Hardware Plc and Northamber Plc, as well any systems builders – resellers, OEM customers and manufacturers. The company also badges its own notebook personal computers, Enact, which it gets made in Taiwan. It has just launched two new versions, NB5700 and NB7600. The NB5700 is Enta’s entry level 66MHz 80486DX2 machine, with 4Mb RAM, 340Mb hard disk and built in sound board, microphone and speakers, selling at around ú850. The NB7600 is a 90MHz Pentium, with 8Mb RAM, 1Gb disk, 10.3 screen, on-board 16-bit sound board and internal speakers, retailing at ú1,780.
