WSJ Asia Honors Asus With Quality and Innovation Award

by Marco Chiappetta — Sunday, November 01, 2009, 03:26 PM EDT

ASUS Ranks First in Quality and Innovation in The Wall Street Journal Asia 200 Survey

Voted Second Most-admired Company Overall; Credited with "Revolutionizing the Global PC Industry" with the Eee PC

Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2009 – ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS) has been voted number one in "high-quality services and products, as well as innovation in responding to customers' needs"* among Taiwanese Corporations by 2,622 executives and professionals who participated in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Asia 200 survey. It also placed second in the most-admired Taiwanese company ranking for the second year running.

"Although we are still far away from our goal, we hope to become the most-admired leading enterprise in the new digital era," said Jonney Shih, chairman of ASUS. "The way we see ourselves achieving this is to keep innovating. Over the past year, we have brought to the market a raft of innovative products and exclusive technologies that have signaled our intent, such as the ultra-thin Eee PC™ Seashell, the Eee PC™ T91MT multi-touch tablet, and the UL Series of notebooks with Turbo33 technology. We will continue to roll out similar innovations until our target is met."

WSJ singled out the Eee PC as an example of how ASUS has delivered upon its promise of innovation. It wrote: "The Eee PC in some ways turned computer-industry innovation on its ear. Asustek focused on simplifying and shrinking the notebook instead of developing ever-more powerful machines." This "gave rise to the 'netbook' category that is revolutionizing the global PC industry."

Peter Shih, President of China Business Headquarters represented ASUS at the Asia 200 Awards Ceremony held in Beijing, China earlier this evening.

Tags: Asus, WSJ, award, quality

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com