CTL (company)

CTL was founded as Computer Technology Link Corp[1] in 1989[2] and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.[3] In 2015 it opened offices in Vigo, Spain as well.[4] The CEO of the company is David Kim and the President is Erik Stromquist.[5]

In 1999, CTL began providing computers and technical support to the government of Malaysia and its education system.[1] CTL began manufacturing all-in-one PCs again in the early 2010s.[6] In 2014 CTL partnered with CryptoRig in order to produce currency-mining computer systems.[7] In 2016 CTL Chromebooks were provided to teachers and students in Nevada education system via a legislative appropriation of $20 million passed through the Nevada State House.[8][9]

In 2018 CTL partnered with Google and Sprint in order to develop a Chromebook with access to LTE mobile service, creating the Chromebook NL7 LTE.[10] It also released the Core i7 version.[11] In 2019 the company released the CTL Chromebook Tab Tx1, with two Cortex-A72 cores and four further Cortex-A53, and 4GB of memory and 32GB of storage.[12] That year CTL also released the Chromebox CBx1-7 for mounting to visual displays.[13]