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ovember 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 pai
d
-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 lightes
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all-in-one NB.
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ovember 1998 The company was certified with ISO-14000.
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ovember 1998 Asia Week had the company ranked in the first place of The International Chinese
Enterprises 500 & Top-10 Manufacturer in 1998.
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ovember 1998 Asia Week had the company’s business
p
erformance in the first three quarters of
1998 ranked in the first place of The InfoTech 100.
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ovember 1998 Business Wee
k
(U.S.A.) had the company ranked in the 18
th
p
lace 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 a
r
ea of 1,453 pings planned for
use.
May 1999 Ranked in the 21s
t
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
operation in the special issue of Commonwealth Magazine (hit the mark of NT$10
billion and become the leader of information and telecommunication industry).
Ranked as one of the National Top-20 Private Businesses in the special issue of
Commonwealth Magazine.
June 1999 China Credit Information Service Ltd. awarded the company with the honorary
citation of “1999 Taiwan TOP 500.”
China Credit Information Service Ltd. ranked the company in the fourth place as
the most profitable business of “1999 Taiwan TOP 500.”
China Credit Information Service Ltd. ranked the company in the third place as
the highest earnings business of “1999 Taiwan TOP 500.”
China Credit Information Service Ltd. ranked the company in the third place as
the best assets-management business of “1999 Taiwan TOP 500.”
China Credit Information Service Ltd. ranked the company in the fourth place as
the most productive employees of “1999 Taiwan TOP 500.”
Increased the paid-in capital to NT$11.449 billion with retained earnings.
July 1999 Presented ASUS super thin
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B.
October 1999 Increased the paid-in capital to NT$11.464 billion with cash for an amount NT$15
million and with NT$300 million collected.
December 1999 Sales revenue of the year amounted to NT$49 billion representing 39.2% growth
from the year before.