Motion Computing,  announced today a manufacturing agreement with ASUSTek, Inc. ASUS will become an original design manufacturer of Motion™ tablet PCs and peripherals. New Motion products built by ASUS will be released beginning in 2007.

This new agreement augments Motion’s existing relationship with Compal Electronics based in Taiwan and China. Compal will continue as a strategic partner for Motion, including manufacturing of Motion’s current award-winning product family as well as developing new Motion designs.

“Motion has a product strategy we believe in,” said Steve Hwang, general manager of ASUS IPC business unit. “ASUS’ expertise in specialized ultra-mobile product manufacturing and technology integration makes this partnership with Motion valuable to ASUS.”

“Motion is growing and we need this added manufacturing support to take our business to the next level,” said Scott Eckert, CEO of Motion. “ASUS is a strong partner for us, as it offers a local, experienced engineering team co-located with manufacturing to build the innovative, award-winning tablet PCs we bring to market.”