Asus

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AsusTek Computer Inc.
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ASUS Logo.svg
ASUSTeK Computer headquarters 20150711.jpg
AsusTeK Computer Headquarters
Type
Public
Traded as TWSE: 2357
LSE: ASKD
Industry Computer hardware
Electronics
Founded 2 April 1989; 29 years ago
Founder Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Tsiah, T.H. Tung
Headquarters Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jonney Shih (Chairman & Chief Branding Officer)
Jonathan Tsang (Vice Chairman)
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$428.73 billion (2016)[1]
Operating income
NT$17.40 billion (2016)[1]
Net income
NT$19.20 billion (2016)[1]
Total assets NT$333.6 billion (2015)
Total equity NT$167.3 billion (2015)
Number of employees
ca. 17 000 (2017)[2]
Website www.asus.com
Asus
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Literal meaning ASUS Computer Stock-share Limited Company
Transcriptions
ASUS
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Literal meaning "Chinese-Eminent"
Eminence of/by the Chinese people
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Transcriptions
AsusTek Computer Inc. (/'e?su?s/;[3] Chinese: ??????????; pinyin: Hu�shu� di�nnao
guf�n youxi�n gongsi; stylised as ASUSTeK or ?SUS) is a Taiwanese multinational
computer and phone hardware and electronics company headquartered in Beitou
District, Taipei, Taiwan. Its products include desktops, laptops, netbooks, mobile
phones, networking equipment, monitors, WIFI routers, projectors, motherboards,
graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, peripherals, wearables,
servers, workstations, and tablet PCs. The company is also an original equipment
manufacturer (OEM).

Asus is the world's 5th-largest PC vendor by 2017 unit sales.[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 $1.3 billion.[5]

Asus has a primary listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the ticker code 2357
and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange under a ticker code ASKD.