Acer Peripherals, Inc. (API), headquartered in Taoyuan, Taiwan, was founded in 1984 and has grown to be one of the global leaders in display, imaging, storage, input and communication products. The API products, including color monitors, CD-ROMs, keyboards, multimedia TVs, scanners and GSMs, are manufactured in its worldwide plants in Taiwan, Malaysia, China and Mexico with marketing and service sites in the U.S., the Netherlands and Japan. The number of employee is more than 5,000. The world's top five display and keyboard maker, API manufactures more than three million color displays and four million keyboards every year. The CD-ROM lines, with their yearly six million production capacity, is now Taiwan's top manufacturer.