ASUS PREDICTIONS IN SHIPMENT FOR THE QUARTER FALL DOWN:

ASUS has been unsuccessful to strike its laptop consignment target objective for the 1st half of 2008. It will be seeking to contract out some of its laptop business in Q4'08. Asustek president Jerry Shen reveals he is convinced that the corporation will be capable to ship 5 million EEE PCs in the year 2008, in spite of the component shortages. Asustek's current laptop PC shipment objective for