Shareholders approve ECS acquisition of Uniwill Computer

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DQC Bureau
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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), manufacturer of desktop PCs, notebooks,
servers, motherboards, video cards, wireless solutions and handheld devices,
board of directors approved the company's Uniwill acquisition. This
acquisition will allow customers of both companies to deploy a wide range of
compelling notebook and white-book products to the marketplace immediately, with
targeted sales of three million sets in the first year.

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The meeting was held by WY Lin, Chairman, ECS.

Under the terms of the agreement, ECS will acquire Uniwill Computer in an
all-stock swap where two shares of Uniwill Computer will be swapped for one
share of ECS. The expected completion date of the acquisition is December 1,
2006, where ECS will issue 184,930,000 new shares.

This is the second consecutive acquisition made by ECS after recently acquiring
the desktop PC unit of Tatung last year and Uniwill in July of this year.
Besides taking over the OEM business of Fujitsu Siemens from Uniwill Computer,
ECS will be aggressively building up business relationships and gaining new
orders from other first-tier OEM/ODM notebook clients.

According to MT Chen, President, ECS, the major players in the PC market are
all getting larger, the company's integration of Uniwill's OEM/ODM, R&D
and management capabilities will help ECS enhance its business scale and
increase its market share consistently in the worldwide PC industry. In
addition, ECS will be firmly positioned as one of the top five notebook
manufacturers in the world and its production volume will scale up to three
million sets per year, with an increased OEM/ODM client base and reduced
procurement and manufacturing costs.