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Traded as | TWSE: 2357 LSE: ASKD |
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Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
Founded | 2 April 1989; 30 years ago |
Founder | Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Tsiah, T.H. Tung |
Headquarters | Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan, |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Products | Desktops, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, networking equipment, monitors, projectors, motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, peripherals, wearables, servers, workstations, and tablet PCs |
Revenue | NT$354.2 billion (2018)[1] |
NT$17.40 billion (2016)[2] | |
NT$19.20 billion (2016)[2] | |
Total assets | NT$333.6 billion (2015) |
Total equity | NT$167.3 billion (2015) |
Number of employees | ca. 5,667 (2019)[3] |
Website | www.asus.com |
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Traditional Chinese | 華碩電腦股份有限公司 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 华硕电脑股份有限公司 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | ASUS Computer Stock-share Limited Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 華碩 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 华硕 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | 'Chinese-Eminent' Eminence of/by the Chinese people (traditional Chinese: 華人之碩; simplified Chinese: 华人之硕) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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(help)ASUS comes from the last four letters of PegASUS, the winged horse in Greek mythology that represents the inspiration of art and learning. However it is not pronounced like the 'ASUS' in PegASUS,
Компания ASUS образовалась в 1989 году [..] Ее название образовано от английского слова 'PegASUS' [..] Была взята только часть названия – 'ASUS', чтобы быть в начале списка по алфавиту. [Translation: The ASUS company formed in 1989 .. Its name is formed from the English word 'PegASUS' .. [We] took only part of the name: 'ASUS', in order to be at the beginning of alphabetical order.]
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says three companies have built working models – Samsung, ASUS, and Founder, China's second largest PC maker. The Samsung and ASUS devices are expected to be in stores by April, and the Founder device in June.
Under the new corporate entity, ASUS employees were paid out all pension plans regardless of maturity as of 1 January 2008. All employees at the two new companies must start their tenure from scratch.
ASUS declared to also launch a cheap variant along with two major versions as they're going to do at Malasyian launch on April 21.
At the Computex show on Monday in Taipei, Taiwan, ASUS introduced a slew of products, including the Eee Box B202. The Eee Box is the desktop equivalent of the ASUS EeePC.
Green ASUS – which was initiated in 2000, pursues the 'Four Green Home Runs' in the design and production of notebooks, namely: Design, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Service and Marketing.
The startling discovery was made by a PC Pro reader whose antivirus software was triggered by a key cracker for the WinRAR compression software, which was located on the recovery DVD for his ASUS laptop.
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