Asus 2009 Annual Report Download - page 15

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The combination of ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe, Striker II Extreme, and ENGTX280 had
broken the record successfully at the extreme temperature of 100℃ below.
October 2008 ASUS has Eee PC market launched for one year. The sales of Eee PC are growing
worldwide that has overturned the imagination of the world about mobile
communication and has lead the minicomputer market successfully. EeePC is
elected as the best seller of 3C product this year. ASUS has Eee PC S101, the
stat-of-the-art; market launched this month targeting on global business
commuters and fashion Yapese.
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ovember 2008 ASUS Eee Family promoted new products, all-in-one touch-
p
anel screen
computer Eee Top ET16 series with 15.6” touch big screen. The computer can be
operated with a screen touch for an effective interaction and operation with the
computer that is different from convention table-top computer.
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ovember 2008 The tough Japanese market was conquered by the easy-to-learn and easy-to-use
Eee PC! According to the survey in November of the most creditable 3C survey
company, Business Computer News (BCN), EeePC was the champion in sales of
Notebook and the most popular product of the year by the Japanese lifestyle and
fashion magazine DIME.
December 2008 ASUS Eee PC was named the product of the year by Forbes and Stuff Magazine
in the U.K., the Japanese lifestyle and fashion magazine Dime gave the Eee PC
top product honors. Sweeping from the west side to the east side of the Atlantic,
America’ s benchmark on-line retailer Amazon also selected the Eee PC as the
most popular Christmas gift and recommended by 13 medias as the best gifts to
give noted how consumers loved the high mobility of the Eee PC. Spanning
Japan, Taiwan, Europe and the U.S., there is no place in the world that has not felt
the effect of the Eee PC.
January 2009 According to the 24
th
“ideal brand in the mind of consumers” survey of
Management Magazine V. 451 and the “ideal brand in the mind of businessmen”
of Today V. 626,
February 2009 ASUS Computer and the world leading GPS brand Garmin announced the
establishment of a strategic alliance to launch a joint Garmin-ASUS brand smart
phone that combines leading smart phone and GPS technology.
March 2009 Eee PC™ series ha
d
b
een the top-three models on the shopping lis
t
of the
benchmark online mall “AMAZON” for more than once. The newly launched
1000HE model of Eee PC™ had taken up the top-two spots with successful
pre-order. It had evidenced the popularity of Eee PC and ASUS had owned the
heart of American consumers with Eee PC™.
March 2009 Global design prize “reddot” was awarded in Germany. ASUSTeK had
b
een
awarded with industrial design awards in recent years including “Product Design
2009 Winners” this year for the five products of Eee PC S101, Eee Keyboard PC
innovative computer, S121 notebook, P30 notebook, and innovative “chocolate
keyboard.”
April 2009 ASUSTeK was the biggest winner in the 3r
d
Annual Taiwan Excellence Award for
three consecutive years where a total of 53 products received the Excellence
Award, in which, Eee PC S101 was awarded with the “Gold Award” this year
while ASUS Bamboo U6V and P552w smart phone were warded with “Silver
Award.”
April 2009 ASUSTeK launched the energy-saving mo
t
herboards P5Q PRO Turbo and P5Q
Turbo on the Earth Day. P5Q PRO Turbo and P5Q Turbo were designed with
unique Xtreme Phase power design and ASUS 2nd generation EPU smart
energy-saving chips to save power consumption; also, allow the system to monitor
automatically, adjust power supply, reduce temperature, and increase power
efficiency up to 96%.
April 2009 ASUSTeK was reckoned as the canon of green products to the world by CNN and
TIME Magazine. Eee PC 1000HE was appraised by CNN in the program of ”Your
Green World”. ASUS Bamboo U6V was awarded”Green Design 100” by TIME
Magazine for the artistic design and environmental protection value.