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Tegra® 3 while exhibiting the Google Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) based
ASUS transformation TabletPC for the first time.
December 2011 Brand sales in 2011 amounted to NT$350.3 billion.
January 2012 ASUS won six product innovation awards in CES exhibition, in the categories of
wireless portable, personal electronic products, audio equipment, computer hardware,
and components. PadFone was awarded with the Best of Innovations Award in the
category of wireless portable products, demonstrating ASUS’s leadership in the field
of digital life products.
January 2012 ASUS was the biggest winner for the 9
th
consecutive year in the 20
th
Taiwan
Boutique Awards; a total of 50 products received awards, while 7 products were
finalists for the Golden Quality Award.
January 2012 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 ASUS was listed (in 234th place) in the global Top 500 super
computers, and in the 37th place in the Green 500 Super computers category.
February 2012 ASUS released the latest PadFone and multiple TabletPCs with the theme in
“Incredible Innovation Endless Possibilities” at the Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona.
March 2012 ASUS held a global seminar in Taiwan on the bran
d
-new Z77 motherboard series, by
exhibiting multiple exclusive innovation techniques applying the technology of the
Intel® 7 motherboards; these innovations brought the full potential of the
motherboards into play.
April 2012 ASUS announced the series “Happiness 2.0” with new laptop standards, featuring the
five dimensions in Beauty, Sound, Touch, Instant On, Instant Connect, and Cloud,
which aim to comprehensively enhance user experience.
May 2012 ASUS was awarded with HSPM certificate (Hazardous Substance Process
Management) from IECQ becoming the world’s first computer company to receive
the prestigious awarded.
June 2012 In the 2012 Best Choice competition, ASUS again won several awards in six
categories. ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity and PadFone won the Best Choice Gold
Awards in the Computer & System category, and Innovative and Smart Mobile
Device categories. Eee Box EB1033 also won the Green ICT Award with recycling
rates as high as 90%. The ASUS P1 LED Projectors and O!Play Smart TV were
awarded with Best Choice in category of Display & Digital Entertainment.
Moreover, EA-N66 Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Ethernet Adapter won Best Choice in
category of Computex.
June 2012 ASUS casted the magic of “transformation” again at Computex by launching ASUS
TAICHI, Transformer AiO, Transformer Book, and a new member to the transformer
Tablet family, Vivo Tab and VivoTab RT, as well as the borderless technical design of
screen MX 289H/239H.
June 2012 For the first time, ASUS cooperated with Google to develop the Jelly Bean Nexus 7
Tablet with the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. Nexus 7 combines the
robust hardware design power of ASUS and the latest Google software service,
integrating the outstanding hardware/software combination to create
market-changing advantages.
October 2012 ASUS released the PadFone™ 2 in Milan and Taipei in a synchronized global
presentation. The phone is noted for being highly intuitive and convenient for
consumers.
October 2012 ASUS released the latest series of products carrying Windows 8 operating system.
Chairman Jonney Shih first released the product in New York, followed by CEO
Shen Zhen in Taipei, driving new products such as ASUS TAICHI, ASUS
Transformer AiO, and ASUS Transformer Book to new peaks.
December 2012 Brand sales in 2012 amounted to NT$413.1 billion.