Nextec Corporation

Nextec Corporation is a multinational technology company headquartered in Manila, Philippines. Founded on April 7, 2015, the company is famously known for its laptops and mini PCs.

Despite being a medium-sized company, NexTec became a popular electronics and technology company in the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, United States, and Canada.

History
In 2015, Nextec Corporation was founded as a grey market reseller of laptops under the name Nexstore. Jose Sanchez and Mark Langley would bought brand new, latest laptops from the United States and ship it to the Philippines. These laptops include brands from Acer, Alienware, Apple, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and others. All of those laptops that were sold had a lower price and a 1 year shop warranty. On March 26, 2017, the company was renamed to Nextec and stopped selling imported laptops and started selling customizable Clevo laptops under the sub-brand Elysium. This was because there was a possibility that the store would be possibly raided and padlocked by the Bureau of Customs.

The Elysium sub-brand lasted from March 26, 2017, until September 26, 2018, where they sold the brand to Helix Technologies Inc (the authorized reseller of Sager laptops in the Philippines). Orders that were placed within the week of September were either cancelled or shipped in order to clear out the remaining unsold inventory. A Helix spokesperson stated that Nextec wanted to "manufacture and compete into the oversaturated laptop market," which their first laptop that was manufactured in-house, the Mintbook, was still in its development stage until six months later.

The Mintbook was later released in March 2019. It featured a 14-inch full HD IPS display, Intel® Core™ i5-8265U processor, 8GB of dual-channel DDR4 system memory, 512GB of NVMe SSD, and an optional NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics chip. It was launched in the Philippines at ₱54,999 (₱44,999 without the NVIDIA GeForce MX150 dedicated GPU). An Intel® Core™ i7-8565U model was also launched at a retail price of ₱64,999. The Intel® Core™ i7-8565U model features a 100% sRGB screen and a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX150 GPU.

Nextec would later open its headquarters and offices in Taipei, Taiwan and in San Francisco, California, United States after the success of the Mintbook.

In mid-2019, plans and details for Nextec's first gaming laptop was revealed during their first annual shareholders meeting. Nextec stated that their first gaming laptop would feature a 15.6-inch 144Hz display, a 9th generation or (possibly) a 10th generation Intel Core H-Series processor, up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM, 512GB of SSD storage with an optional 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or 1660 Ti GPU. Originally the laptop was going to be part of a rumored revival of the Elysium brand under its new name, Elysium Gaming, but later ended up under the name Flare, which it was later revealed at the Philippine International Convention Center on October 2019. The laptop was released on November 30, 2019 at a starting retail price of ₱54,999.

On the same year, Nextec would also release mini PCs based on the upcoming Neo and Flare product lines.

On January 2020, Nextec later unveiled two new laptop product lines, this includes Nextec Neo, a budget-oriented line of laptops, and Nextec Elysium, a mid-range line of gaming laptops. Both of them were originally slated for release in mid to late 2020, but due to the manufacturing and supply chain issues that brought up by the COVID-19 pandemic, only the Nextec Neo was released on June 2020, while the Elysium series of mid-range gaming laptops were delayed to early-mid 2021.

Laptops

 * Nextec Neo - budget-oriented laptops that are either running on Chrome OS or Windows
 * Nextec Mintbook - mid-range general purpose laptops
 * Nextec Flare - budget-oriented, entry level gaming laptops

Mini computers

 * Nextec Neobox - general purpose mini PCs
 * Nextec Flarebox - gaming-oriented mini PCs