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competition, second to none.
Invested in Enertronix, Inc., which also became a subsidiary, to conduct R&D and
manufacture radio receiver and wireline communication equipment.
December 2005 The company issued 59,592,835 stock shares in exchange for 15% stock shares of
Advantech Co., Ltd. to achieve the goal of stock exchange and strategic alliance;
with this, the company entered the industrial computer field.
ASUS entered CES exhibition for the first time, introducing the concept of the
“digital home.” W5A NB was awarded with CES Innovative Design &
Technology Award.
The consolidated income of the year amounted to NT$357.8 billion representing a
substantial growth of 43.11% from the year of 2004.
January 2006 The company and Advantech Co., Ltd. each acquired 50% shareholding of
Advansus Corp. on January 3, 2006 with cash capitalization.
January 2006 The company’s R&D was trusted by the industry; ASUS AS-D770 was crowned
as Top-50 Industrial Purchasers.
March 2006 The company had stock exchanged with Askey Computer Corporation according
to Merger Law with 73,662,961 shares issued for merger. Askey Computer
Corporation had become a subsidiary of the company.
March 2006 The company had organizational structure adjusted in response to business
development. Most of the BU was defined as the Business Division for the
realization of process-oriented and customer-oriented service.
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 awar
d
” Top-10.
This was a great achievement for the company; evidence of ASUS’s leading
position of in the computer world.
June 2006 Business Weekly awarded ASUS with InfoTech 100 for eight consecutive years.
October 2006 ASUS, known for creating trust and sentiment was awarded the “2005 Top-10
Taiwan Brand Value” by Business Next Magazine.
December 2006 ASUS ATEC was awarded with the “7
th
Management of Technology Awar
d
”
b
y
Chinese Society for Management of Technology.
December 2006 The consolidated income fo
r
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
p
resen
t
the ASUS Lamborghini
VX series NB high-speed version.
January 2007 ASUS AS-D770 and NB were crowned as Top-50 Industrial Purchasers in 2005
by the Commercial Times newspaper in Taiwan. 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 was awarded 39 citations in the 15
th
Taiwanese Excellence Awards for its
excellent quality and innovation; that was second to none.
June 2007 ASUS was recognize
d
as an innovative technology company
b
y Mercedes-Benz
which co-branded the ASUS P526 “C-Class Mobile Phone” with ASUS.
July 2007 ASUS announced
p
lans to have brand name business and OEM/ODM business
divided at the press conference of SEC in July 2007. ASUS was divided 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 as of the baseline date of January 1, 2008.