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to be among the top 100 Taiwan products.
September 2011 ASUS is ranked with the top 3 international brands of Taiwan for the 9
th
consecutive
year, and brand market value reaches NT$1.637 billion.
October 2011 ASUS releases the latest ZenBoo
k
supe
r
-slim noteboo
k
, worldwide. Chairman
Jonney Shih first released the product in New York, followed by London, Milan and
Taipei.
N
ovember 2011 Jason Mraz, San Diego-
b
ased singe
r
-songwriter, visi
t
s ASUS headquarters in
Guangdu and teams with ASUS to create a song to support the In Search Of
Incredible brand theme.
N
ovember 2011 ASUS
p
artners with NVIDIA and launches the world’s first 10.1-in Androi
d
-
b
ased
Tablet PC, which includes NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 4-core processor. The product,
equipped exclusively with the ASUS Eee keyboard base, inherits the concept and
spirit of transformation from ASUS, and features exceptional action and battery life.
N
ovember 2011 ASUS announces a major deployment in cloud computing by launching the ASUS
Private Cloud to integrate cloud platform, enterprise application software, and
comprehensive solutions for server systems, allowing enterprises to quickly build
exclusive private clouds with all-in-one convenience and security.
December 2011 ASUS officially releases the world’s 1s
t
qua
d
-core processor carrying NVIDIA®
Tegra® 3 and also featuring Google Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) in the
ASUS Tablet PC.
December 2011 Company repor
t
s
b
rand sales revenue of NT$350.3 billion.
January 2012 ASUS wins 6
p
roduct innovation awards in CES, in the categories of Wireless
Portable, Personal Electronic products, Audio Equipment, Computer Hardware, and
Components. PadFone is awarded with the Best of Innovations Award in the category
of Wireless Portable products.
January 2012 ASUS is the biggest winner for the 9
th
consecutive year in the 20
th
Taiwan Boutique
Awards. A total of 50 products received awards, and 7 products were finalists for the
Golden Quality Award.
January 2012 The
N
ational Center for High-Performance Computing adop
t
s the ASUS ESC4000
server for use with the largest GPU super-computer in Taiwan. ASUS is listed in the
global Top 500 super computers for the 1st time, with a ranking of 234; also listed in
37th place in the Green 500 Super computers category.
February 2012 ASUS releases the lates
t
PadFone and multiple Tablet PCs with the theme of
“Incredible Innovation, Endless Possibilities” at the Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona.
March 2012 ASUS holds a global seminar in Taiwan on the bran
d
-new Z77 motherboard series,
exhibiting multiple exclusive innovation techniques that apply the technology of the
Intel® 7 motherboards.
April 2012 ASUS announces the series Happiness 2.0 with new laptop standards, highlighting
concepts of beauty, sound, touch, heart and ubiquity—all aimed at enhancing user
experience.
May 2012 ASUS is awarded with an HSPM certificate (Hazardous Substance Process
Management) from IECQ, becoming the world’s 1st computer company to receive the
prestigious award.
June 2012 In the 2012 Best Choice competition, ASUS wins awards in 6 categories. ASUS
Transformer Pad Infinity and PadFone win the Best Choice Gold Awards in the
Computer & Systems and Innovative and Smart Mobile Device categories. Eee Box
EB1033 wins the Green ICT Award, with recycling rates as high as 90%. ASUS P1
LED Projectors and O!Play Smart TV are awarded with Best Choice in the category
of Display & Digital Entertainment, and the EA-N66 Dual-Band Wireless-N900
Ethernet Adapter wins Best Choice in the category of Communications.
June 2012 The ASUS theme focuses on transformation at Computex with the launch of the
ASUS TAICHI, Transformer AiO, the Transformer Book, new Transformer
tablets—Vivo Tab and VivoTab RT—as well as the MX 289H/239H with a
borderless screen.
June 2012 ASUS initiates a coopera
t
ive effor
t
with Google to develop the Jelly Bean Nexus 7