Acer shoots to become biggest PC maker in 2011

Posted on Tuesday, November 30 2010 @ 20:02 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci told journalists that his company aims to become world's largest PC builder next year:

Acer, now the world's second-largest PC vendor, hopes to clinch the top spot from rival HP next year, the Taiwanese company's chief executive told a Swiss newspaper on Sunday.

"If the mobile world continues to grow, we will necessarily replace HP as the world's biggest computer-maker," CEO Gianfranco Lanci told the SonntagsZeitung in an interview.

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