ASUSTek’s DRW-1814BL LightScribe DVD-RW drive will be the first model bundled with Nero 7 Essentials

Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced today that Nero 7 Essentials digital media software suite has been selected as the exclusive software package bundled with ASUSTeK's new DVD-RW drives sold worldwide, beginning with the DRW-1814BL LightScribe DVD-RW drive released today.

Nero 7 Essentials, a "one stop" digital multimedia solution, provides consumers with pre-mastering, recording, packet writing, and photo management applications. In addition, ASUSTeK drive purchasers will be offered a free 30-day trial of SVCD and DVD-Video playback, authoring, and encoding applications via download from http://www.nero.com.

"With this partnership, Nero and ASUSTeK enable consumers to immediately achieve the highest level of disc burning performance available," said Charly Lippoth, Chief Technology Officer, Nero AG. "Nero 7 Essentials' strong feature set dovetails very well with the functionality of ASUSTeK's drives."

"ASUSTeK and Nero are on the same page when it comes to providing consumers with digital media solutions that exceed their expectations," said Maggie Lee, Senior Director of ASUSTeK ODD. "Adding Nero 7 Essentials makes the customers' purchase decision that much easier."

For more information about Nero 7, visit http://www.nero.com.

About Nero

Nero is a leading provider of digital multimedia solutions for the personal computer, consumer electronics, and mobile industries. Focused on developing technologies for digital media creation and playback, Nero provides strategic partners with applications, codecs, tools, software development kits, and programming interfaces for use with a variety of the latest platforms and devices. Over 240 million units of Nero's award-winning software solutions have been distributed globally and are widely used in the home, on the go and professionally.

Nero distributes products globally through hardware manufacturers, international partners, retailers, and directly through http://www.nero.com. Nero AG is headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany and serves the world with regional offices in Karlsbad, Germany (EMEA); Glendale, California, USA (Americas); and Yokohama, Japan (APAC).

About ASUSTeK

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (TSE:2357) is a leading provider of 3C total solutions. With a global staff of more than 100 thousand and a world-class R&D design team, the turnover for 2006 was 16.5 billion U.S. Dollars. ASUS has been ranked in Business Week InfoTech 100 for 9 straight years, and was ranked No.1 by the Wall Street Journal for best quality products in Taiwan.