Established in the year 1990, ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated famously known as ASUS is a Taiwan-based multinational corporation that manufactures motherboards, sound cards, graphic cards, PDAs, computer monitors, laptops, servers, mobile phones, computer accessories, components and also computer cooling products. The company’s total revenues for the current year 2009 has been overall 29.2% of the PCs sold in the prior twelve months worldwide with an Asus motherboard alone, fetching up to US$21.2 billion of revenues for the company for 2009.The Wall Street Journal Asia has ranked Asus the number one in quality and service, and the company appears in the Business Week’s “InfoTech 100” and “Asia’s Top 10 IT Companies” rankings. In the 2008 Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands survey, Asus’s IT hardware sector has got the corporation with a total brand value of US$1.324 billion. Asus manufacture components for other leading companies like Apple, HP, Palm Inc., Alienware, and Falcon Northwest.
The term “ASUS” comes from the last 4 letters of Pegasus (the winged horse in Greek mythology), thus Asus incorporates strength, creativity and purity with each product line in the market.