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Corsair Acquires ORIGIN PC
Corsair is pleased to announce that it has acquired custom gaming PC leader ORIGIN PC. With a decade of experience in creating high-performance PCs, ORIGIN PC specializes in delivering hand-built, personalized PCs that deliver the best gaming experience possible, while maintaining world-class customer service and support from day one.
ORIGIN PC offers a wide range of high-performance configurable PCs, ranging from gaming PCs and powerful workstations to gaming laptops, building systems focused on customization, service, gaming, and technology to deliver a complete gaming experience. ORIGIN PC systems have won hundreds of media awards and industry accolades and are trusted by customers across North America to provide a truly personalized custom gaming PC experience.
"With the gaming PC market continuing to expand as an increasing number of players make the jump from console to PC, we wanted to do more to reach customers in North America that prefer to buy, rather than build, their system," said Andy Paul, Founder and CEO of CORSAIR. "With ORIGIN PC's expertise in personalized custom gaming systems and CORSAIR's strength in performance PC hardware and the iCUE software ecosystem, we're excited to combine our efforts to create new world-class gaming experiences for PC gamers."
"CORSAIR is a fantastic partner to help take ORIGIN PC forward, known for creating quality, high-performance products that fully align with ORIGIN PC," said Kevin Wasielewski, CEO of ORIGIN PC. "With a complete range of enthusiast PC products, ORIGIN PC and CORSAIR are uniquely placed to create amazing new systems that make the experience of owning a personalized custom gaming PC better than ever."
Combining the expansive CORSAIR product portfolio with ORIGIN PC's system building expertise, in-depth configuration options and substantial work force will further expand both company's capabilities. Integrating the CORSAIR iCUE software ecosystem into ORIGIN PC's systems will offer gamers system-wide lighting synchronization and performance monitoring, while the recently announced range of CORSAIR Hydro X Series custom cooling will soon be found in select ORIGIN PC systems. Further co-operation and integration of CORSAIR and ORIGIN products will be announced in the near future.
ORIGIN PC will remain a separate brand within CORSAIR, and will continue to operate from its Miami, FL offices. All existing ORIGIN PC warranties, purchases and support are unaffected and will continue to be provided by ORIGIN PC's world-class customer support team.
CORSAIR will continue to offer its own branded range of systems, including the VENGEANCE PC, CORSAIR ONE and CORSAIR ONE PRO. Jones Day served as legal advisor to CORSAIR. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP served as legal counsel to ORIGIN PC. Wedbush Securities Inc. served as exclusive financial advisor to ORIGIN PC on this transaction.
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#5693972 Posted on: 07/24/2019 05:58 PM
I think they dipped with the Corsair One - this seems to be a full on dunk. I'm not sure why though.. I feel like that market is extremely saturated and aside from the Corsair brand what exactly can they bring to differentiate themselves in it? I'd prefer they acquire a software house so they can make their drivers not be terrible.
They posted on Tweaktown that Origin will remain a separate brand still, more or less this looks like Corsair dipping their toes in the prebuilt market.
I think they dipped with the Corsair One - this seems to be a full on dunk. I'm not sure why though.. I feel like that market is extremely saturated and aside from the Corsair brand what exactly can they bring to differentiate themselves in it? I'd prefer they acquire a software house so they can make their drivers not be terrible.
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#5694021 Posted on: 07/24/2019 07:55 PM
I was expecting a move like this from Corsair, really, still i'm worried about their future, lately the bland Cases, lack of innovation, unecessarily heavy software, makes me wonder if Corsair is somewhat confused about their focus.
Origin PCs have been quite good on the design front, hopefully some inspiration will come from the Origin team.
I was expecting a move like this from Corsair, really, still i'm worried about their future, lately the bland Cases, lack of innovation, unecessarily heavy software, makes me wonder if Corsair is somewhat confused about their focus.
Origin PCs have been quite good on the design front, hopefully some inspiration will come from the Origin team.
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#5694043 Posted on: 07/24/2019 09:23 PM
I was expecting a move like this from Corsair, really, still i'm worried about their future, lately the bland Cases, lack of innovation, unecessarily heavy software, makes me wonder if Corsair is somewhat confused about their focus.
Origin PCs have been quite good on the design front, hopefully some inspiration will come from the Origin team.
love my Corsair x680 case i purchased a few months ago, agree the icue software is junk though, i guess bland looking did wonders for ikea, maybe it will for Corsair.
I was expecting a move like this from Corsair, really, still i'm worried about their future, lately the bland Cases, lack of innovation, unecessarily heavy software, makes me wonder if Corsair is somewhat confused about their focus.
Origin PCs have been quite good on the design front, hopefully some inspiration will come from the Origin team.
love my Corsair x680 case i purchased a few months ago, agree the icue software is junk though, i guess bland looking did wonders for ikea, maybe it will for Corsair.
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#5694268 Posted on: 07/25/2019 06:04 PM
I comes at no surprise and I would say that's a smart move from Corsair.
Slowly will integrate/offer the Hydro X paarts in Origin's build thus moving more stock while Origin enjoys lower costs(and increased margins). And not to mentions the myriad other Corsair components(ssd's, ram etc) and peripherals they have..
I comes at no surprise and I would say that's a smart move from Corsair.
Slowly will integrate/offer the Hydro X paarts in Origin's build thus moving more stock while Origin enjoys lower costs(and increased margins). And not to mentions the myriad other Corsair components(ssd's, ram etc) and peripherals they have..
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They posted on Tweaktown that Origin will remain a separate brand still, more or less this looks like Corsair dipping their toes in the prebuilt market.