Yep, Your PC Probably Has an ASUS Motherboard Inside!

ASUS is one of the biggest computer motherboard manufacturers, and a leader in the industry. In the year 2006, almost sixty million motherboards made by ASUS were shipped out. In this year, one third of the computers manufactured in the world had an ASUS motherboard installed. The impressive array of ASUS motherboards available meet all needs and purposes, including the mainstream, high end, and low end value markets. Manufacturers who have chipsets incorporated into ASUS motherboards include Intel, SIS, ULI, VIA, ATI, and NVIDIA.

Asus Makes things Easier, Faster, and ‘Cooler’ for You

One of the newest products introduced by ASUS on their motherboards are Energy Processing Units, or EPUs. These motherboards allow system startups to happen much more quickly, and they use less power. The ASUS Express Gate only needs five seconds to complete the startup process. EPUs allow a user to access the Internet in a fraction of the time, because it does not need to access the hard disk or wait for the Windows loading process. ASUS also introduced CPU coolers and other thermal inventions. CPU heat can be reduced by as much as thirty percent with the ASUS Lion Square CPU cooler.

Motherboards are not the only products manufactured by ASUS, they also have a full line of electronics available, such as graphics cards, LCD monitors, networking devices,computers, notebook computers, audio cards, the “Eee PC,” storage devices,PDAs, servers, mobile phones, and webcams. Notebook PCs manufactured by ASUS were the first ever to receive TCO’99 certification, which requires certain criteria including battery consumption, ergonomics, radiation emission control, and ecology.

ASUS has more than eight thousand employees around the world, with offices located in the USA, Canada, Taiwan, India, Hong Kong, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Malaysia, South America, Turkey, UAE, Vietnam, Singapore, Italy, the Netherlands, and Hungary. ASUS is a company which has won a number of awards. These prestigious awards won include a listing in Business Week’s list of the InfoTech 100, and the Wall Street Journal giving ASUS a number one spot for the quality products and services offered.

Even though the primary focus of ASUS is motherboards and PC devices, including ASUS drivers, the company also offers other high tech and innovative products, like an Internet radio that allows the user to connect wirelessly, so that thousands of global Internet radio stations can be received and listened to. The product needs no PC and stands alone. And there are also MP3 player ports allow the user to perform MP3 playback from a connected device.

The mission of ASUS is to provide solutions for IT that are innovative and modern. The strong foundation of ASUS rests on innovation, service, quality, speed, and cost efficiency. The company core is a passion for both quality and technology, and that is why it is so successful.

One of the newer products from ASUS is the ASUS EN8600GTS, and it has a 675 MHz clock speed, a 2.0 GHz memory, and a 1.45 GHz Shader clock. The bus is only 128 bits wide, but can transfer 32Gb per second and includes 256Mb megabytes of memory on the bus.