Among the top-ten worldwide vendors, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Asustek were the only vendors who saw on-year growth of over 60% in second and third quarters this year.Source: DigiTimes
Acer had notebook shipments of 4.15 million units in the third quarter, surpassing Dell's 4.01 million, while Asustek shipped 1.22 million notebooks.
Acer adopted a new strategy in the third quarter. separating its product lines into consumer and enterprise segments. The move brought its notebook market share up to 14.2%, noted IDC.
Acer and Asus notebook shipments grew 60%
Posted on Thursday, December 27 2007 @ 10:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Shipments of Acer and Asus notebooks grew over 60% in the second and third quarter of this year. Acer is now the second biggest notebook vendor in the world and Asus ranks eight, according to new data from IDC.