2017/04/03
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced that its world-leading gaming products won four prestigious 2017 Red Dot Design Awards.
The award-winning products include the ROG Maximus IX Extreme and ROG Maximus IX Apex gaming motherboards, the ROG Strix GL502 and GL702 gaming laptops, and a new, revolutionary ROG gaming laptop.
2017/03/09
ASUS today announced USB-AC53 Nano, the world’s smallest 802.11ac Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) USB Wi-Fi adapter. With USB-AC53 Nano, users now have a plug-and-forget way to upgrade almost any laptop to super-fast dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi with speeds of up to 867Mbps on the 5GHz frequency band or 300Mbps on the 2.4GHz band.
2017/03/09
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Maximus IX Extreme, a seriously powerful new Z270 gaming motherboard that’s expertly tooled to be totally cooled, with an integrated monoblock for water-cooled performance right out of the box.
To create this all-new water-cooling solution, ROG teamed up with Bitspower. Designed from the ground up, Maximus IX Extreme’s monoblock has flow-rate, water-leak and temperature sensors all seamlessly integrated to keep wiring and tubing complexity to a mini
2017/02/16
ASUS today announced that its first Social Return on Investment (SROI) report has been approved and certified by Social Value International, a global network specializing in social impact and value. This makes it the first consumer technology company in Asia to receive this certification, with Social Value International Senior Researcher Adam Richards scheduled to present ASUS Chief Sustainability Officer Sandy Wei with the certification in March.
2017/02/15
ASUS today announced the VivoMini VC66 Series, a range of high-performance mini PCs designed for a wide range of computing tasks for the home or office. They are powered by desktop-grade 7th Generation Intel® Core™ (Kaby Lake) processors with DDR4 RAM. They feature a triple-storage design that can accommodate one M.2 solid state drive (SSD) plus two 2.5-inch SSDs or hard disk drives (HDDs).
2017/01/18
ASUS today announced ZenBook UX430 and UX530, sophisticated, elegant and stylish thin-and-light laptops with large slim-bezel displays in an ultra-compact form factor. These exciting new models offer the productivity benefits of larger displays without the usual size and bulk penalty. They are also the thinnest-ever ZenBook models to feature high-performance discrete graphics.
2017/01/12
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced that Team izakOOO are the winners of the ROG Join the Republic Community Challenge Grand Final held at the Dreamhack Monster Studios in Stockholm, Sweden on 5th-8th January, 2017.
Team izakOOO, led by Polish pro-gamer Piotr ‘IzakOOO’ Skowyrski, were crowned champions after defeating Team Maikelele from Sweden 16-13 in the first game, and 16-8 in the second game of the Grand Final. The match-up was watched by 170,000 viewers on the ASUS ROG Twitch c
2017/01/10
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced GR8 II, a 4-liter gaming PC with full gaming desktop performance to cater to any gamer’s requirements. It is currently the world’s smallest gaming PC that is designed for VR, and has the most advanced graphics in its class with full-size custom ASUS GeForce® GTX 1060 desktop-grade graphics. It is powered by up to a 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 (‘Kaby Lake’) desktop-grade 65W processor and 32GB of DDR4 memory, and can run the latest AAA gaming title
2017/01/04
ASUS today announced ZenFone AR, a next-generation smartphone that represents a significant advance in mobile virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. It is the first smartphone that will be Tango enabled and Daydream-ready. Tango is a set of sensors and computer-vision software by Google that enables smartphone augmented reality. Tango technologies add three key capabilities — Tango motion tracking, Tango depth perception, and Tango area learning — to enable smartphone augm
2017/01/04
ASUS today announced ZenFone 3 Zoom, the world’s slimmest and lightest 5.5-inch smartphone with a high-capacity 5000mAh battery and a dual-camera system that delivers photographic perfection.
2017/01/03
ASUS today announced that the ASUS G11 gaming desktop is now available with the latest 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processors. This gives G11 the processing performance required to run the latest games smoothly at the highest graphics settings. G11 can be specified with up to an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 graphics card, which delivers up to three times (3x) the performance of previous generation NVIDIA graphics cards. In addition, G11 features the exclusive ASUS Aegis III gaming utility for easy
2016/12/22
ASUS today announced that it has won a tender to supply the Volkswagen Group, headquartered in Germany, with 210,000 monitors over the next three years. This massive order will see ASUS provide the Volkswagen Group with 19-, 22- and 24-inch LCD monitors as it upgrades its production plants and offices worldwide.
2016/12/21
ASUS today announced at a press event in Taipei that the Mandarin edition of Zenbo — the first ASUS robot designed to provide assistance, entertainment, and companionship to families — will be available for pre-order in Taiwan from 1st January, 2017. The press event opened with a chorus of 10 Zenbo robots performing onstage, singing holiday songs for the audience.
2016/12/12
ASUS today announced Xonar U7 MKII, a high-quality USB sound card and headphone amplifier. The compact Xonar U7 MKII is an upgraded version of the acclaimed Xonar U7 and features true 7.1-channel,192kHz/24-bit high-definition (HD) surround-sound output for incredible audio performance. Xonar U7 MKII comes with ASUS Sonic Studio, a software utility with an intuitive single-screen interface that provides complete control over a wide range of audio features, and Sonic Radar Pro, a feature for gamer
2016/12/09
ASUS today announced that it will Outshine the Competition with Aura Sync, the world’s first RGB-lighting-synchronization feature that is compatible with a broad range of PC components and peripherals, from motherboards and graphics cards to keyboards and mice — including many developed by popular third-party hardware manufacturers.
2016/12/01
ASUS today announced BRT-AC828, an ultra-fast AC2600-class dual-band 802.11ac wireless router with a four-transmit, four-receive (4x4) antenna configuration.
BRT-AC828 is packed with all the networking features that are vital to growing companies, whether they are new start-ups or longer-established enterprises.
2016/11/29
ASUS has been recognized as Taiwan’s No. 1 international brand for the fourth consecutive year at the Best Taiwan Global Brands Awards 2016. Hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy, these awards are a key indicator of how Taiwanese brands are performing on the global market. At the awards ceremony, Interbrand announced that the No. 1 company now has an estimated brand value of
US$1.748 billion.
2016/11/28
ASUS today announced that during the first half of 2016, its AiProtection network security software — an integral feature of selected ASUS routers — neutralized almost five million internet-based threats and nearly 150 million blocked attempts to visit websites with hidden security threats. This represents a daily average of approximately 1.5 attacks and risks neutralized on each AiProtection-enabled router.
2016/11/04
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced G701VI, a slim and stylish gaming laptop with overclockable NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 graphics for incredible virtual-reality (VR) gaming performance. ROG G701VI has a wide-viewing-angle display that features
NVIDIA G-SYNC™ technology and an ultra-fast 120Hz refresh rate for smooth and fast gaming visuals. It also has an anti-ghosting keyboard with 30-key rollover technology for total gaming control.
2016/11/01
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the sixth and final leg of the ROG Join the Republic Community Challenge at PAX Australia, which will be held from 4th-6th November, 2016. The challenge features eight Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
(CS:GO) teams, each helmed by some of the biggest names in gaming and eSports
For two intense days, visitors to the ASUS ROG booth at PAX Australia can challenge each other and pro-gamer Chad ‘SPUNJ’ Burchill in a series of unique Counter-Strike: Gl
2016/10/28
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the second and final round of ROG OC Showdown Formula Series, and RealBench Challenge III and Challenge IV.
ROG OC Showdown Formula Series Round 2 opens for entries on 28th October, 2016 and runs through to 28th November, 2016; RealBench Challenge III and IV will start respectively on 28th October and 25th November, with each Challenge running for 11 days.
Both competitions are open to overclockers that use air- or water-cooled systems.
2016/10/18
ASUS today announced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Strix GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti and Strix GeForce GTX 1050, all-new gaming graphics cards powered by the NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050 graphics processing units (GPUs) that deliver ultra-fast performance, advanced cooling and reliability, and ASUS Aura Sync technology for personalized styling.
Also announced were the ASUS Expedition, Dual, and Phoenix series, three all-new graphics cards series powered by the latest NVIDIA GeForce
2016/10/07
ASUS today announced that all purchases of selected ASUS gaming motherboards, ASUS gaming graphics cards, and ASUS networking products will be eligible to receive a bonus Mafia III game download key along with bonus Mafia III Family Kick-Back in-game vehicles and weapons. Purchasers can receive their free game download key by registering on the event microsite (www.asus.com/event/2016/rog/Mafia3) from 21st October to 26th December, 2016 or while supplies last. The game can be redeemed online at
2016/10/06
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the winners of the ROG Masters South East Asia Region Online Qualifier Round held on 24th and 25th September, 2016.
In the first bracket of the Dota 2 qualifier, underdogs Next-Gen VietNam eliminated Execration from the Philippines in their final match to book their place in the Grand Final. In the second bracket, Mineski Sportss from Philippines beat Indonesia’s Rex Regum Qeon for their spot in the November event.
In the Counter-Strike: Global
2016/10/06
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced that the ROG G752VS and ROG G752VM gaming laptops are now certified Oculus Ready PCs. The announcement was made at the Oculus Connect 3 Developer Conference in San Jose, California.
Both models are the world’s first gaming laptops to meet the recommended specifications required to power Oculus Rift, and feature NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 10-Series graphics, the latest Intel® Core™ processors, and up to 64GB of DDR4 memory. The VR-Ready NVIDIA GeForce GTX