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Zalman Tech Co. is a South Korean company that develops and provides aftermarket desktop computer products with primary focus on cooling enhancement.
Zalman has done considerable product development since its founding in January 1999, and now holds several patents focusing on both cooling and fan noise-reduction. Personal computer systems can generate significant heat and noise, the management of which is important for those modifying or assembling computer systems. Zalman's product range includes specialized heat sink and fan solutions for CPUs, as well as quiet power supplies, computer water cooling systems, motherboard chipset coolers, graphics card heat sink and fan combos, laptop coolers, cases, and hard disk cases that lower temperature and reduce noise.
Zalman's primary competitors include Vantec, Thermaltake, Spire, Cooler Master and Arctic.
Zalman has also developed a completely fanless case. It uses a fin based design to dissipate heat with heat generating components like the graphics card and motherboard transferring heat to the case body via a system of heat pipes and radiators.
Zalman introduced the CNPS9500AM2, a heatsink was meant specifically for socket AM2 compatibility on May 23, 2006. The company also broke into the headphone market with its 5.1 headphone system, ZM-RS6F/M.
Zalman can refer to:
- Zalman Tech Co., Korean computer company
- Zalman (name), a name formerly common among East European Jews, a variant of Solomon
Zalman is a male first name, a Yiddish-language variant of Solomon that is also pronounced Salamon.
The name was common among East European Jews, and it still has usage in many Haredi and especially Hasidic communities all over the world. Some of the founders of modern Israel bore this name, including Zalman Shazar, third President of Israel. In present-day modern secular circles in Israel the name is not common, being identified as "a diaspora name".
In English-speaking countries, the name is sometimes abbreviated to " zal", which is not attested in Israel.
"Zalman" is ethimologically related to "Zalmai" or "Zalmay", an Afghan name.
People named "Zalman" include:
- Zalman Aran, Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician (also Zalman Aranne)
- Zinovy Gerdt (born Zalman Khrapinovich), Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor
- Zalman Grinberg, Lithuanian/Israeli/American doctor, Holocaust survivor
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Zalman King, American film director, writer, actor and producer
- Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries, TV series by the above
- Zalman Kornblit, Romanian Jewish playwright
- Zalman Teitelbaum, one of two Grand Rebbes of the Satmar Hasidim (full name Zalman Leib Teitelbaum or Zalman Leib Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum)
- Zalman Melamed, Israeli settler Rabbi (full name Zalman Baruch Melamed)
- Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi (known familiarly as " Reb Zalman Moishe")
- Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Israeli Rabbi
- Zalman Schachter, Polish-born American Rabbi (full name Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)
- Zalman Schocken, German Jeweish, (later Israeli) publisher
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Zalman Shazar, President of Israel
- Zalman Shazar Junior High School, named for the above
- Zalman Shmotkin, spokesman for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement
- Zalman Shoval, Isralei politician and diplomat
- Zalman Shragai, Mayor of Jerusalem
- Zalman Sorotzkin, East European (later Israeli) Rabbi
- Zalman Usiskin, American mathematician
- Zalman Yanovsky, Canadian rock musician (also Zal Yanovsky)
The compound "Shneur Zalman" is common among people of Hasidic Chabad affiliation, derived from their founder Shneur Zalman of Liadi.