Asus' Pegatron spin-off draws to a close
 

IT SEEMS LIKE Asus’ spin-off of Pegatron has been given the green light, as the two companies are set to part officially on June 24th when they each get their own stock on the Taipei stock exchange. During the period between the 8th of May and the 23rd of June all trading with Asus’ stock will be suspended.

However, Digitimes has an interesting comment from Asus’ chairman Jonney Shih, who suggested that Asus is aiming at becoming the next Apple and not Acer, which has been Asus’ aspirationl target in the past. He also said Asus will adopt open source platforms running Android powered by ARM based processors in addition to its current Wintel solutions. This is apparently based on customer demand which is an interesting turning point, especially after Asus decided not to launch its ARM based smartbook last year.

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