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January 1997 Taoyuan Lu-Chu Plant was certified with ISO-9002.
February 1997 Leased Taoyuan Nan-Kan Plant with an area of 4,400 pings ready for production.
February 1997 P/I-P65UP5 of the company was awarded with the “5th Symbol of Excellence”
award.
April 1997 Setup Nan-Kan Plant with an area of 4,400 pings right next to Lu-Chu Plant for a
total monthly production of 800,000 motherboards.
May 1997 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$3.23 billion with retained earnings and cash.
May 1997 Collected funds for US$230 million with cash in the form of overseas depository
receipt GDR.
September 1997 Acquired automation SMT for expanding automatic production scale over three
times.
September 1997 Monthly income exceeded NT$2 billion for the first time.
October 1997 Purchased Quay-Sun Plant with an area of 7,900 pings for the production of new
NB and CD-ROM.
November 1997 Held new product presentation including NB and CD-ROM.
December 1997 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$21.371 billion representing 60.4%
growth from the year before and the net income amounted to NT$7.038 billion.
February 1998 Asiamoney awarded the company as “Best Managed Companies in Taiwan.”
April 1998 Finance Asia awarded the company as “Asia’ s Strongest Companies.”
June 1998 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$8.115 billion with retained earnings.
June 1998 Monthly income exceeded NT$3 billion for the first time.
October 1998 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$8.135 billion with cash for an amount NT$20
million and with NT$420 million collected.
October 1998 Acquired automation SMT for expanding automatic production scale and with
over one million motherboards manufactured monthly.
October 1998 Presented the lightest all-in-one NB.
November 1998 The company was certified with ISO-14000.
November 1998 Asia Week had the company ranked in the first place of The International Chinese
Enterprises 500 & Top-10 Manufacturer in 1998.
November 1998 Asia Week had the company’ s business performance in the first three quarters of
1998 ranked in the first place of The InfoTech 100.
November 1998 Business Week (U.S.A.) had the company ranked in the 18th place worldwide and
the first place in Asia of The InfoTech 100.
December 1998 Completed the construction of Lu-Chu Plant with an area of 3,600 pings ready for
use.
December 1998 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$35.2 billion representing 64.7% growth
from the year before and the net income amounted to NT$11.575 billion.
March 1999 Initiated the construction of Beitou II Plant for an area of 1,453 pings planned for
use.
May 1999 Ranked in the 21st place of Top-1000 Manufacturers in the special issue of
Commonwealth Magazine.
Ranked in the 2nd place of Top-50 Enterprises 50 for three consecutive years
(2007~2009) in the special issue of Commonwealth Magazine.
Ranked in the 6th place of Top-1000 Manufacturers as the most profitable