RGB DDR4 is made by ADATA, Corsair, G.Skill, GeIL, TeamGroup.
- Not too unreasonable for ASUS to collaborate with these five OEMs. All would benefit from advertising an "AURA Certified" compatibility stamp. (Although Corsair and G.Skill make other RGB devices so they probably prefer their own dev.)
RGB keyboards are made by ASUS, Corsair, Logitech, Razer, SteelSeries.
- Again, not too unreasonable for ASUS to collaborate with the four non-ASUS OEMs. (Again, some like Corsair and SteelSeries would probably prefer their own dev.)
And RGB keyboards are also now made by Cougar, Dell, G.Skill, Patriot, Roccat, Rosewill, Thermaltake, Zalman.
- And again, not impossible to also collaborate with these eight additional OEMs, especially since they (like ASUS) don't like spending time and money on software dev just so people will be able to use their hardware.
And RGB keyboards are also now made by a vast horde of generic or clone brands. Some are obviously cheap garbage. Others are obvious ripoffs of big branded models (most of these are likely "ghost shift" products made in the same factories by the same workers, a few are likely counterfeits).
1STPlayer, Adesso, AGPtek, Aula, AZIO, Bloody A4tech, Corn, e-3lue, Estone, Excelvan, Five Star, Gamdias, Genius, GANSS, Geek Buy, GPCGR, Haoztec, LK002, Langtu, Mechanical, Merdia, OEM Industry, Redragon, Sharkoon, Shen Zhen Luom, ShunYou, Tesoro, Topun, Venyi, ZhenBaoTian ... the list keeps changing as brands are introduced or disappear or reappear almost weekly, even newegg and amazon can't track them all.
- But that's about 30 (or more) additional companies. Some of which might not last long enough (or even intend to last long enough) in this market anyhow. Some of which don't even look legit.
And then there's the same sort of mess with RGB mice, another three or four dozen companies. And RGB anything, everything, everyone is trying to cash in with their own RGB gizmos.
ASUS AURA should support it all? It would be nice, I'd love it, but it just doesn't seem realistic.
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