ASUS- History and Products of ASUS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc., usually referred to as Asus (/ˈss/),[2] and trading under that name, is a Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and electronics company headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Its products include desktops, laptops, netbooks, LED/LCD panels, mobile phones, networking equipment, monitors, motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, servers, workstations, and tablet PCs. The company's slogan is: "Inspiring Innovation. Persistent Perfection."[3]
Asus is the world's fifth-largest PC vendor by 2012 unit sales (after HP, Lenovo, Dell and Acer).[4] Asus appears in BusinessWeek’s "InfoTech 100" and "Asia’s Top 10 IT Companies" rankings, and it ranked first in the IT Hardware category of the 2008 Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands survey with a total brand value of US$1.3 billion.[5]
Asus has a primary listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.
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The name Asus originates from Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.Only the last four letters of the word were used in order to give the name a high position in alphabetical listings.

Asus was founded in Taipei in 1989 by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao,[9] all four having previously worked at Acer as computer engineers. At this time, Taiwan had yet to establish a leading position in the computer-hardware business. Intel Corporation would supply any new processors to more established companies like IBM first, and Taiwanese companies would have to wait for approximately six months after IBM received their engineering prototypes. According to the legend, the company created a prototype for a motherboard using an Intel 486, but it had to do so without access to the actual processor. When Asus approached Intel to request a processor to test it, Intel itself had a problem with their motherboard. Asus solved Intel's problem and it turned out that Asus' own motherboard worked correctly without the need for further modification. Since then, Asus was receiving Intel engineering samples ahead of its competitors.[10][11]
In September 2005 Asus released the first PhysX accelerator card.[12] In December 2005 Asus entered the LCD TV market with the TLW32001 model.[13] In January 2006 Asus announced that it would cooperate with Lamborghini to develop the VX series.[14]
On 9 March 2006 Asus was confirmed as one of the manufacturers of the first Microsoft Origami models, together with Samsung and Founder Technology.[15] On 8 August 2006 Asus announced a joint venture with Gigabyte Technology.[16] On 5 June 2007 Asus announced the launch of the Eee PC at COMPUTEX Taipei. On 9 September 2007 Asus indicated support for Blu-ray, announcing the release of a BD-ROM/DVD writer PC drive, BC-1205PT.[17] Asus subsequently released several Blu-ray based notebooks.

Asus has its headquarters in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.[27]
As of 2009 Asus had manufacturing facilities in Taiwan (Taipei, Luzhu, Nangan, Guishan), mainland China (Suzhou, Jiangsu), Mexico (Ciudad Juárez) and the Czech Republic (Ostrava). The Asus Hi-Tech Park, located in Suzhou, covers 540,000 m2 (5,800,000 sq ft), roughly the size of 82 football fields.
Asus operates around 50 service sites across 32 countries and has over 400 service partners worldwide.

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