Acer Inc (宏碁) has forecast high growth in its domestic revenue this quarter on the back of the launch of the Windows 10 operating system and the Taipei Computer Applications Show at the end of this month.
The New Taipei City-based PC maker achieved “single-digit” growth on both an annual and quarterly basis during the second quarter of this year amid delayed buying before the Windows 10 launch later this month and lower-than-expected prices of government tenders, Taiwan operations president Towny Huang (黃鐘鋒) said on Wednesday.
Looking ahead to the third quarter, Acer is forecast to increase its overall revenue domestically by 35 percent from the previous quarter, helped by shipments of Windows 10-based computers and promotions at the five-day trade show, which is scheduled to open on July 30, Huang said on the sidelines of the launch of PChome Online Inc’s (網路家庭) new mobile transaction system.
In an interview with Chinese-language Apple Daily published on June 1, Huang said Acer’s share of the local notebook market had rebounded from 19 percent in April last year to 23 percent at the end of last year and to 25 percent in the first quarter of this year.
The figure is estimated to reach 28 percent by the end of this year, narrowing the gap between Acer and leading player Asustek Computer Inc (華碩), which accounts for nearly 50 percent of the domestic notebook market, Huang said.
According to German market research and advisory firm GfK Group, Taiwan’s laptop computer sales increased by 3 percent in the first four months of this year to about 260,000 units, bucking the global downtrend in sales of tablets and desktop computers.
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