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The "most motherboards in the world" bit started off as a POV spiel. I need to see evidence before I will believe it. -- Grunt (talk) 22:33, 2004 Aug 29 (UTC)

Please check digitimes.com for more info about this.

Contents 1 Asus EPU 2 External link 3 Cleanup Request 4 Two questions: origin of the name and pronunciation 5 Time? 6 Help with financial info 7 Someone should post or write about this 8 Quite sad 9 AsusReviews 10 Relationship with Intel 11 Luchu → Lujhu 12 Year of Introduction 13 Original Features 14 Asus splits into 3 companies 15 Requested move 15.1 Survey 15.2 Discussion 15.3 No mention of the Eee PC 15.4 Queen's University Link 16 Dated figures

[edit] Asus EPU

Was it discuss before that Asus EPU link should merge with Asus = =\\\ --Ramu50 (talk) 20:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External link

Linux on Asus boards is entirely uneeded, and should be removed. I could probably run any number of OSes on the thing. Removed.

Linux on Asus laptops link is needed. (It is not Asus boards!).

Also, something needs to be done with the table (with patents). somehow the external links are showing up as part of the table.

[edit] Cleanup Request

This article is in pretty bad shape, so I've tagged it for different cleanup issues. I've edited out some NPOV stuff, but the article isn't encyclopedic. There's no company history, and little in the way of company data (employees, leaders, location, and so on).

• cleanup-ipa, as the pronunciation should be in IPA. The pronunciation looks wrong to me, anyway; everyone I know says "ay-soos", not "uh-SOOS".

• • I agree. "uh-SOOS" is rather strange and I have never heard it, besides, the origin from the word "pegasus" suggests the stress would be on the first syllable. I corrected the transcription and rewrote it in IPA. --Anthony Ivanoff 05:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Strange as it is, I remember calling their tech support for help with my mobo and hearing 'ah-SOOSE' over and over. I'd fix the pronounciation, but I don't know how to do the IPA stuff. Anyone want to check and fix it? --Calamari 07:48, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

• verifiy, for assertions like "sells more motherboards than any other company" and "

• • I found a link [1] which claims it is so, but also found another, where MSI sales person says they sell more. [2] --Anthony Ivanoff 05:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• weasel words abound, as in "various parts" and "been known to" and "and others" are still there, though I tried to clean them up. This is a symptom of original research.

I'd like to see more about innovations in the company's history, hard information about its business practices, and notes about its other lines of business (like graphics cards and notebooks). -- Mikeblas 15:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

• • • Thanks for the fixes, Anthony! -- Mikeblas 12:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Two questions: origin of the name and pronunciation

Hi everybody,

can anyone give a reference for "the name derives from 'Pegasus'"? Furthermore, should we consider the Taiwanese or American pronunciation (just guessing that they are different...)? --Gennaro Prota 19:33, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Here is something I found, not sure how reliable it is: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/eee-pc/how-to-pronounce-eee-pc-320007.php 66.27.121.188 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 23:42, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Time?

This has been added to the article:

Advansus Computer, the recently established joint venture between Asustek Computer and industrial PC (IPC) specialist Advantech Computer

but encyclopedias should be timeless: when is recent, exactly? The article should specify the date as exactly as possible. -- Mikeblas 20:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• Yes, an anonymous contributor is adding lot of info without citing sources and without writing edit summaries for his modifications. The info could basically be right so I don't feel like removing them immediately, but if we don't find appropriate sources we have to remove them anyway. --Gennaro Prota 21:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, a quick search on the Internet revealed that all additions by 67.161.9.23 are a mere copy-&-paste of the following two articles:

http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060120A7032.html

http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=28574

NB: the first of them seems sometimes inaccessible directly; in these cases going to http://www.feedsfarm.com/s/asustek/ and then clicking on "Asustek-Advantech joint venture to enhance ASUS brand value" on the bottom of the page has worked for me. --Gennaro Prota 00:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with financial info

Hi guys,

any finance expert to help me with this?

• Is Asus, technically speaking, a public company? (I've read somewhere that is is a privately owned company listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange; but I don't know if that information are up-to-date or not, and frankly I don't even know whether "privately owned" is in contradiction with "public". Intuitively speaking I guess not.)

• In all official references I have found I only see TSE:2357 (see for instance this page [3]). I don't see either NASDAQ or LSE. And the NASDAQ link we have here doesn't seem to work. BTW, what's the correct meaning of "TSE"? "Tokyo Stock Exchange" or "Taiwan Stock Exchange"?

Thank you very much, Gennaro Prota 11:53, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

No we are still a private company, however there are talks about the company going public in the near future.

The company is not listed under NASDAQ. It also does not file financial reports with the SEC. Asustek can't be a private company if its stock is traded publicly on a stock exchange.

[edit] Someone should post or write about this

Taiwan-based motherboard maker Asustek recently announced plans to reorganize into 15 business units with the reorganization to become effective on March 1, according to the company as cited in today's Economic Daily News (EDN).

After reorganizing, each business will have its own R&D, marketing and sales team, the paper added.

Sited from Digitimes

With this news, Asus is planning to become the next Intel or AMD of this business.

[edit] Quite sad

Quite sad to come back here and notice someone removed most of the table

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ASUS&diff=60573953&oldid=59014642

without even adding an edit summary (except for the text inserted automatically with 'section editing'). An unnoticed vandalism which should induce some thinking about Wikipedia tools. I have to unwillingly concede a point to Pavel, in this respect. —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 00:47, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AsusReviews

The link www.asusreviews.com still needs to be added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 211.74.105.30 (talk • contribs).

No. Please see WP:EL. Also, WP:SPAM as the person who runs the website has been repeatedly trying to add the link. The site is clearly not appropriate at this time. --Yamla 14:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Relationship with Intel

I can not find anything that corroborates the story about the ASUS engineers fixing the Intel boards. It makes for a good story, but does anyone have any proof that it actually happened? Greg Birdsall 19:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I looked through the logs and found guy who added it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Richardlai#ASUS_Intel_Relationship. --217.146.113.66 10:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for putting the notice on his user page - I can not find anything else that references that story on the web, or on Asus' site. Greg Birdsall 13:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me. It was from a Chinese book about Asus (I have failed to find its English equivalent though). A link to the extract has been added (Chinese website!). Richardlai 22:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Now I just have to find someone to read it for me... Greg Birdsall 20:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

If Chinese isn't your language, you can just about get the idea from Google Translate: [4] Richardlai 01:91, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Luchu → Lujhu

I changed spelling of the manufacuring facility location from Luchu to Lujhu, because I couldn't find much on Wikipedia with Luchu. Hope this is correct. —Tokek 10:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Year of Introduction

I'm kinda thinking that the "Year of Introduction" column in the table of ASUS's orginal features should be removed, all of the years are unknown. Thoughts? (Cooldude7273 11:34, 25 December 2006 (UTC))

Yes and no :-) My secret hope was that it would be filled some day, but no dice so far. Feel free to do what you think is the best. BTW, this article has undergone a lot of unnoticed vandalism; the table was much larger a while ago (IIRC I filled-in most of it, except… er… the years of introduction :-)) —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 11:44, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original Features

Please Discuss Original Features ASUS may have introuduced here

• I believe it was ASUS that first introduced the jumperless bios or jumperless FSB/CPU Multiplier. ASUS was also the first to do away with the SLI jumper block and flip card. There are a lot of other features that are missing from the article's table that are ASUS original introductinos.--Root Beers 02:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

• See also the section titled "Quite sad", above. Once upon a time the table was much bigger (though I don't remember having added anything concerning jumper-less features). If you look for my user name in the edit history you can find many entries which you might want to restore. But be prepared to waste your time, as I did :-( —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 11:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asus splits into 3 companies

Hi everyone, can anyone tell me why my comments go deleted? Its a fact that Asus is splitting into 3 companies. Please let me know, thanks--Nvasi 14:21, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, looks like its back.. am new.. sorry --Nvasi 14:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

[edit] No mention of the Eee PC

Why is this? It's probably Asus's most known product outside of motherboards, is notable for being a mass-produced commercial device running linux and it's not mentioned?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.36.9 (talk) 09:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Queen's University Link

I don't think this link belongs; it's not even the title of the article to which it links. I don't think anyone would reasonably expect that their student government would be confused with ASUSTeK. Furthermore, I accessed the page as /Asus and not /ASUS I think the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society is not notable, and nominate the link for removal. 137.22.99.185 (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dated figures

Somebody should update the motherboard figures. 2005 figures are two years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Annonymous editor (talk • contribs) 03:03, 12 April 2008 (UTC)