Receiving up to four updates throughout the year, the. “This has been a big source of our commercial laptop demand. This Brand Report covers Acer in the laptops market of the United Kingdom. “COVID-19 caused a jump in commercial laptop demand, not from the enterprise side, but for work-from-home demand that requires commercial laptops,” Kao said. “The remote work trend is not going away, and with it we will continue to see demand for Chromebooks.”Īnother source of growth for Acer products is the commercial laptop market in the US, he said. “I don’t think the American Chromebook market is saturated yet, while demand from Southeast Asia and Latin America is continuing to grow,” Kao said. “We already have orders through the first quarter of 2022.”Īcer president of IT products business Jerry Kao (高樹國) said that Acer is looking to emerging markets for Chromebook demand, which he said has “yet to be satisfied.” “Our Asia-Pacific region posted year-on-year revenue growth of 11.6 percent in the third quarter, a new single-season high since 2013,” Hou said. Hou said that he is bullish regarding overall demand for Acer products. “We will be experimenting with laptop assembly in India starting from November this year,” he said. However, Hou said that he has observed in increase in laptop demand, which began in the second half of last year. The Indian market, from banks and governments to large enterprises, still uses mainly desktops.
He predicted sales of at least 100,000 desktop computers in India next year. “Next year - as long as we have enough material and labor, and assistance from peripheral partners - we can even aim higher,” Hou said. Acer has a 3,252m2 production facility in India, the company said.
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