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April 2006 ASUS W3A, W5A, and V600V were awarded with Red Dot Award for the
outstanding function and fashionable and elegant design.
May 2006 ASUS NB W2, W3, and V6 were nominated for “iF China, Design award”
Top-10. A great achievement of the company to share and it did evidence the
leading position of ASUS in computer world.
June 2006 Business Weekly awarded ASUS with InfoTech 100 for eight consecutive years.
October 2006 ASUS that was known for creating trust and sentiment was awarded with the
“2005 Top-10 Taiwan Brand Value.”
December 2006 ASUS ATEC was awarded with the “7th Management of Technology Award” by
Chinese Society for Management of Technology.
December 2006 The consolidated income of the year amounted to NT$560.235 billion representing
a substantial growth of 45.49% from the year of 2005.
January 2007 ASUS worked with Automobili Lamborghini to present ASUS Lamborghini VX
series NB high-speed version.
January 2007 ASUS AS-D770 and NB were crowned for Top-50 Industrial Purchasers in 2005.
ASUS products were the first choice of industry, professionals, and networking
users for consumption.
February 2007 ASUS was awarded with three citations in MIS Best Choice by Institute for
Information Industry: Barebones and server were ranked in the first place and
advanced NB was ranked in the second place.
March 2007 ASUS presented the first 3.5G NB in Taiwan that led consumers entering new
mobile phone era.
June 2007 ASUS were awarded with 39 citations in the 15th “Symbol of Excellence” award
for its excellent quality and innovation that was second to none.
June 2007 ASUS was recognized by Mercedes-Benz and with ASUS P526 “C-Class Mobile
Phone” promoted.
July 2007 AUSU announced to have brand name business and OEM/ODM business divided
at the press conference of SEC in July 2007. ASUS was dividend into three
divisions, in which, brand name business was the responsibility of ASUS while
OEM/ODM was the responsibility of Pegatron Corporation and Unihan
Corporation on the baseline date of January 1, 2008.
July 2007 ASUS was crowned for the “2007 Top-10 Brands Taiwan” with a brand value of
US$1.196 billion recognized representing a growth of 166% from the year of
2003.
October 2007 ASUS Eee PC was market launched in Taiwan for the satisfaction of consumers.
ASUS Eee PC was popular worldwide and was sold at the rate of one Eee PC per
five-second.
November 2007 Oekom, an international reputable institute for environmental protection valuation,
ranked ASUS in the first place of “2007 Environmental Protection.” The
environmental protection effort of ASUS was awarded for the first time; also,
ASUS was the first Chinese IT industry received such honor in the last fifty years.
December 2007 ASUS was ranked in the first place of “Sustainability Award” by the Executive
Yuan and with the award presented to the Chairman of ASUS by the Minister.
December 2007 President Republic of the Gambia, Dr. Jammeh, and his 32 officers visited the
head office of ASUS and shown strong interest in Eee PC.
December 2007 Chunghwa Telecom and ASUS announced a strategic alliance to integrate the
resources for the construction of a perfect digital center and to get involved in
charity activity with 1,000 Eee PC donated to schools in the remote area of north,
center, south, and east Taiwan for narrowing down Taiwan’ s digital divide.
December 2007 ASUS entered optical field for the first time and with BrightCam AF-200 and