Alienware, known for high-performance gaming hardware, was founded in 1996 and gets its name from its founders’ fondness for the sci-fi series, “u003ca href=u0022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Filesu0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003eThe X-Filesu003c/au003e.” It’s been a subsidiary of Dell since 2006.