Eee PC accelerates ASUS growth in India

ASUS India clocks 1100% Y-o-Y growth for FY08

Mumbai, July 23, 2008: ASUS, the leading technology brand, today announced that its India operation has posted almost 1100% growth for the fiscal year 2007-2008.

Commenting over this high growth, Mr. Benson Lin, General Manager, APAC, Middle East & Africa, ASUS, said, “The Company is seeing a significant traction in its business during the current quarter. The driving force behind this stupendous growth has been the revolutionary Eee PC, which was launched in January this year.”

The company plans to focus aggressively on the notebook market in India. “We see a lot of potential for growth in the notebooks market. One in 4 computers shipped in India in FY 2007-08 was a notebook. The consumer notebook segment has grown by 141% as compared to a negative 6% growth in consumer desktops segment,” added Mr. Lin.

The Eee PC received great response all over the world, with sales figures of 350 thousand units sold since its inception and with a projected 3 to 5 million units to be sold this year. During launches of the popular netbook, crowds were seen queuing up hours before start of sales in countries like Taiwan, US, Singapore and China. Even on the Internet, demand for the Eee PC has exceeded expectations, and the Eee PC was voted as “The Most Wanted Christmas Gift” by American Amazon.com and CNet. It has also won a prestigious award at the International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards for 2008. Within a short span of its launch in India, Eee PC has accelerated ASUS’ growth immensely.

About ASUS:
ASUS is a leading company in the new digital era. With a global staff of more than eight thousand and a world-class R&D design team, the company’s turnover for 2007 was 6.9 billion U.S. dollars. ASUS ranks among the top 10 IT companies in BusinessWeek’s “InfoTech 100″ and has been on the listing for 11 consecutive years. ASUS was also selected by the Wall Street Journal Asia as No.1 in Quality and Services in Taiwan. Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, LCD monitors, information appliances, desktop PCs & PC components, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones, handhelds, digital home solutions, broadband communication products and networking devices.

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