Wistron sees Windows 8 and ultrabooks as 2012 notebook sales drivers

Posted on Monday, August 22 2011 @ 22:13 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Wistron chairman Simon Lin said he believes the launch of ultrabooks and Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will serve as growth drivers for the laptop industry in 2012:

Shipments of ultrabooks will account for 10-20% of Wistron's total notebook shipments in 2012, Lin estimated.

Despite current economic turbulence touched off by debt issues in Europe and the US, Wistron's target to ship 30 million notebooks in 2011 remains unchanged, said Lin, who added that notebook Wistron's shipments will grow by a single-digit rate sequentially in the third and fourth quarters.

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