Elsa Technology is a computer hardware company. It was founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG, a German company manufacturing video cards and other peripherals for Personal Computers. In 2002, the German company filed for bankruptcy[1] while its Taiwanesesubsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc.[2] Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo[3] and LANCOM Systems.[1] The ELSA name also continues under the ELSA Japan Inc., which had been founded as a joint venture in 1997, and runs independently since 2002.[4]