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manufacturer at the show having Dual Pentium manufactured successfully and
recognized by the industry and Intel.
May 1994 Bureau of Foreign Trade MOEA ranked the company’ s importing/exporting
business in the 161st place in 1993.
July 1994 ASUS’ s initial name was Hung-Shuo Computer Inc., in July gets up changes the
name officially as ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
August 1994 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$450.337 million with retained earnings.
August 1994 Setup subsidiary in the United States and Germany for marketing, service, and
repair and maintenance.
October 1994 China Development Industrial Bank became the institute shareholder of the
company.
November 1994 PCI Pentium and Dual Pentium were popular in market and with monthly sales
exceeding NT$300 million for the first time.
December 1994 Taipei Factory was certified with ISO 9002.
December 1994 Purchased Taoyuan Lu-Chu Plant with an area of 2,417 pings and a constructed
area of 1,200 pings that was put into service in mid-1995.
December 1994 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$3.36 billion representing 45.9% growth
from the year before and the net income amounted to NT$756 million.
January 1995 ASIAN SOURCES Magazine had the company’ s quality ranked in the first place
and the company’ s technological innovation in the first place of the Top-10
mother board manufacturers in 1994 ahead of First International Computer Inc.
and Acer.
May 1995 China Credit Information Service, Ltd. had the company’ s business performance
ranked in the 5th place of the TOP-500 Manufacturers in 1994.
May 1995 Taoyuan Lu-Chu Plant was put into service for production officially.
June 1995 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$600 million with retained earnings.
September 1995 CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth Portfolio became the institute shareholder of the
company.
October 1995 Monthly income exceeded NT$1 billion for the first time.
November 1995 Presented Pentium Pro server, work station, and motherboard.
December 1995 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$7.87 billion representing 134% growth
from the year before and the net income amounted to NT$1.95 billion.
January 1996 Purchased the head office on Li-Te Road and the building that was rented for
Taipei Plant with an area of 3,159 pings.
April 1996 Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research awarded the company with
“Product of the Year Award” and “Enterprise of the Year Award.”
June 1996 China Credit Information Service Ltd. had the company’ s business performance
ranked in the 1st place of The TOP-500 Manufacturers in 1995.
August 1996 SEC had the company authorized as Class II stock listing company.
August 1996 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$1.2 billion with retained earnings.
November 1996 ASUS went public at Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation officially.!
December 1996 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$13.327 billion representing 69%
growth from the year before and the net income amounted to NT$3.808 billion.