Asus' own brand operation is going to form a new company. ECS will sell a lot of motherboards for OEM PC's in 2006. Sandisk also expects a good year in 2006.

With leading memory device solution maker SanDisk expecting its shipments will grow 2.5 fold next year, the company has decided to secure additional NAND flash backend capacity, with the company adding two firms to its partner list, according to industry sources