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Choice in “Computer and Systems.” The world’s first halogen-free monitor,
VW247H-HF and Bamboo series notebooks, U43SD were awarded with the
Green ICT Award. o!Play Gallery high-speed USB 3.0 player was awarded with
the Best Choice in category of “Display and Digital Entertainment” while the
Two-Way HDMI Streaming Media Center WAVI won the Best Choice in
“Telecommunication category.” ASUS have outperformed with seven awards.
ASUS agreed to establish the Shou Yang Digital Technology Co., Ltd with
AAEON Technology for M&A, based on the consolidation date of June 1st,
2011. Shou Yang was the surviving corporation after M&A and was renamed to
AAEON Technology on July 4th, 2011. ASUS Group is holding 65% of the
integrated ownership.
ASUS disclosed the new branding spirit of “In Search of Incredible” which was
incorporated ASUS N series and debuted with Jay Chou’s special version of
notebook, exhibiting the cross—boundary interaction of technology and arts.
The TAITRA organized the Top 100 Taiwan brands for centennial founding
while Taiwan was recognized by the judgers and consumers to be selected as
one of the top 100 Taiwan products.
ASUS was ranked as the top 3 international brands of Taiwan for the 9th year,
whereas the market value of the brand is valued at NT1.637 billion.
ASUS released the latest ZENBOOK  super-slim notebook in global
synchronization. Chairman Jonney Shi first released the product in New York,
followed by London, Milan and Taipei. The global disclosure in
synchronization implies exquisite era of opening, exhibiting the
love-at-first-sight intellectual notebook paradigm.
Famous international composing singer, Jason Mraz visited ASUS headquarters
in Guangdu and collaborated with ASUS “In Search of Incredible”
ASUS cooperated with NVIDIA and launched the world’s first 10.1-in
Android-based tablet PC carrying NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 4-core processor. The
product inherits the concept and spirit of “transformation” from ASUS but
exclusively equipping with the ASUS Eee keyboard base, exhibiting the
exceptional action and battery life.
ASUS announced its major deployment in cloud computing by launching the
“ASUS Private Clouding” to integrate clouding platform, enterprise application
software and comprehensive solutions for server systems, so that enterprises can
quickly build exclusive private clouds with convenience and safety all in one.
ASUS officially released the worlds’ first 4-core processor carrying NVIDIA®
Tegra® 3 while exhibiting Google Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich)
based ASUS transformation tablet PC for the first time.
Brand sales in 2011 amounted to NT$350.3 billion.
ASUS won six product innovation awards in CES exhibition, in the category of
wireless portable, personal electronic products, audio equipment, computer
hardware, and components. Padfone was even awarded with the Best of
Innovations Award in the category of wireless portable products, witnessing
ASUS’s leadership in the field of digital life products.
ASUS was the biggest winner for the 9th consecutive year in Boutique product
awards in the 20th Taiwan Boutique Awards; a total of 50 products were
awarded while 7 products entered the finals for Golden Quality Award.
The National Center for High-Performance Computing adopted ASUS
ESC4000 server to complete the establishment of the largest GPU super
computer in Taiwan. It was the first time for ASUS to be listed on the 234th
place in the global Top 500 super computers and the 37th place in the Green 500
Super computers.
ASUS released the latest Padfone and multiple tablet PC in theme of “Incredible
Innovation Endless Possibilities” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
ASUS held global seminar on the brand-new motherboard series by exhibiting
multiple exclusive innovation techniques in Taiwan and applies the technology