Jonney Shih next to retire? It ends an era for the Asus public face

If this news is confirmed it would be certainly an important step for Taiwan's Asustek: Digitimes reports that Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek and real charismatic face of the company on the occasion of the official presentations, could retire from professional activity, and then exit Asus.

Its position could be taken by Ted Hsu, one of the co-founders of Asustek and when current Vice President of Pegatron. The latter specializes in the ODM production, original design manufacturers, on behalf of third parties which was developed by the same Asustek few years ago to better serve this market.

Ted Hsu fall short within Asustek with the title of Chief Strategy Officer: this change of professional position suggests that short Hsu substitute Jonney Shih as Chairman of the company.

Jonney Shih is Asustek since 1993, and from that acts as Chairman; until 2006 he also held the position of CEO. Always charismatic face of Asus, is the one who has presented in recent years all major technological innovations developed by the Taiwanese since the launch of the first EeePC solutions that have kicked off the netbook market in 2006.