Razer joins battle against coronavirus, as gaming hardware maker donates up to one million surgical masks
Repurposing gaming production lines to make surgical masks instead
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Razeris going to help in the fight against coronavirus by repurposing some of its product manufacturing lines away from producing gaming peripherals, using them to make surgical masks instead.
The company’s chief executive, Min-Liang Tan, took to Twitter to make the announcement.
Over the past few days, our designers and engineers have been working 24-hour shifts to convert some of our existing manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks so that we can donate them to countries around the world.March 19, 2020
The CEO then added thatRazerintends to donate up to one million masks to health authorities across a number of countries globally, beginning with Singapore.
The manufacturer’s global and regional offices will also be in touch with governments and authorities in their respective territories, in order to work out how exactly to deploy the surgical masks, and where to prioritize support.
Wider response
Obviously this is a much welcome philanthropic move from Razer in the face of the spread of COVID-19, as part of a larger movement within the tech world to try and help fight against the outbreak.
That includes the call for the development ofan open source respirator,Microsoftgiving allNHS staff free access to Microsoft Teamsin the UK, LogMeInproviding free ‘Emergency Remote Work Kits’and of course the project whereby you cancontribute the resources of your home PCto help scientists develop a treatment for coronavirus (as well as many other initiatives and companies pitching in to help).
ViaWindows Central
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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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