The Acer president: more confidence in equipment to produce Windows 8

Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer Inc. (Acer Inc., 2353.TW) said on Monday, supported by Microsoft (Microsoft Corp, MSFT), the company's current production of Windows 8 devices feel more confident.

President of Acer Wengjian Ren (Jim Wong) to the "Wall Street Journal" (Wall Street Journal) gap in a media event in Taipei, said he expected that Windows 8 touch screen device sales will grow in the second half of this year. What specific support for Microsoft, Acer and other PC manufacturers, he did not elaborate. Some sources said, to promote the development of touch-screen control device, Microsoft recently provided to PC manufacturers a discount low Windows 8.

Wengjian Ren said, the company's operating margin in the third quarter of last year, has bottomed out to 0.3%, is expected to rebound this year. He also said that its latest low-cost tablet PC Iconia B1 strong demand, the company expects the tablet PC shipments will surpass 500 million units this year, and 50% likely to reach 10 million units.

He also said that the company's notebook shipments this year will be possible to achieve single-digit growth.

Acer is scheduled for March 19 to announce the results of the fourth quarter of last year. The fourth quarter of last year, according to the report released by Gartner January 14, Acer personal computers (including desktop and laptop computers, but not including Tablet PC) shipments decreased by 11% to 8.62 million units; same period last year to 9.69 million units. The company's global market share in the fourth quarter of last year to 9.5% from 10.2% in the same period last year, but is still the fourth highest global market share of computer manufacturers. Global market share ranking the top three are among the Hewlett-Packard Company (Hewlett-Packard), Lenovo (Lenovo) and Dell (Dell).

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