Melco Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 1986; currently its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacture of
random-access memory products,
Flash memory products,
USB products,
CD-ROM/
DVD-RW drives,
hard disk drives,
local area network products,
printer buffers,
liquid-crystal displays,
Microsoft Windows accelerators,
personal computer components and
CPU accelerators. A subsidiary of Melco provides corporate services in Japan like
Internet set-up,
computer terminal installation/set-up,
computer education and computer maintenance. The company has also started selling
solid-state drives in Japan. Another subsidiary provides the Kuroutoshikou line of PC components.
Buffalo Inc. is currently one of the 16 subsidiaries of
Melco Holdings Inc. and is based in Austin, Texas. Initially founded as an
audio equipment manufacturer, the company entered the
computer peripheral market in 1981 with an
EEPROM writer. The name BUFFALO is derived from one of company's first products, a
printer buffer and the name for the
American Bison (Buffalo).
A Timeline of Firsts January 1999 – First Wireless Router
December 2002 – First Draft-11g Wi-Fi Products Shipped
November 2003 – First NAS Appliance
January 2005 – First RAID NAS Appliance
April 2006 – First Draft-11n Wi-Fi Products Shipped
November 2009 – First USB 3.0 Storage
January 2012 – First Draft-11ac Wi-Fi Solution Demonstrated at CES
May 2012 – First Draft-11ac Wi-Fi products shipped
June 2012 – First Thunderbolt + USB 3.0 Hybrid Device
May 2013 – First DDR Memory Buffer DAS Drive ==Corporate structure==