July 27, 2000

Taipei - - Enlight Corp., a maor computer case manufacturer in Taiwan, has obtained orders from Compaq for 200.000 servers, paving the way for Enlight to venture into the server and Information appliance (IA) barebone system markets, an executive of this firm announced in Taipei.

Spokesman Hsu Chi-shen said that his firm has become increasingly successful in it's diversified operations in recent years. Profit margings for server products remain at about 20%, he said.

Meanwhile, Enlight will also obain orders for 3.5 million PC barbone products from Compaq within the year, compared with one 1 million in 19999. This indicates Enlights's production technology meets international standards, Hsu said.

Enlight has mainly sold it's server products to Intel so far, at aboput 10.000 units per moth.

To cope with the low-pricwe PC revolution, several Tain computer case and switching power supply manufacturers have tried to develop other product lines through international acquisition since early this year. In example. Delta Electronic Inc. is negotiationg with Lucent for the acquisition of a PC department.