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Founded Jan 1976
Headquarters Taipei, TWN

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  • Flagship Google tablet tipped for June release

    Amazon has impressed in the small tablet game, but with competition from Samsung and Acer on the way, Google could have a fight on its hands.
  • AMD's Trinity goes head to head with Intel's Ultrabooks

    The quad core second generation APUs will also be available for traditional notebook form factors, with A6, A8 and A10 versions, with Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo and Samsung amongst those preparing to release devices.
  • PC shipments in Western Europe decline

    In terms of vendors, HP remained top dog as a result of strong sales of professional PCs. It wasn't good news for Acer, which, despite remaining in second place, still seemed to be in transition and suffering from major management changes at a country level.
  • NAND revenues to rocket with Ultrabook boom

    Ultrabooks almost exclusively include at least 128GB SSDs, apart from the Acer Aspire, and even the lower end versions such as the more bargain basement Novatech are foregoing hard disks.
  • China PC market to boom on back of Ultrabooks, Windows 8 release

    In China though its main competition comes from Acer, following its successes in the all-in-one and ultrabook markets.
  • Google goes after Microsoft Windows on OS front

    Chrome OS 19 has just been put on the Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 Chromebooks and the result is that it does not look much like a bootable web browser any more.
  • Ex-Acer CEO shunts to Lenovo Europe

    Acer Chief Executive Gianfranco Lanci, who was fired for not rushing his company into copying Apple's success, has taken over the role as Lenovo's chief of operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
  • Nvidia's mobile Geforce 600M binning gets messy

    We had already raised this concern when we discussed the Acer Timeline M3 Ultrabook powered by the Kepler-based GT 640M, earlier this month, as the Kepler-based card was only mildly superior to its ancestor.
  • Sony to release new Chromebook

    Acer and Samsung have released Chromebooks, and with Ultrabooks on the up many had forgotten about the Google standard.
  • Ye Booke of Lenovo

    TechEye BibleAnd it came to pass that King Ballmer did beget another operating system and the people of Redmond did rejoice. For they had suffered many years watching as the Children of Jobs did taketh the Promised Land of market leadership from them with their Tablets of Flame and iPhones of dropped connections
  • Nvidia's mobile Kepler benchmarked

    Hot on the trail of the Acer-Nvidia Ultrabook announcement yesterday that prominently featured a Kepler-powered machine, someone has handed over the goods to PC Perspective which was prompt to rush a quick graphics benchmark session with the device.
  • Nvidia drops pricing on GTX 580

    Nvidia did take the time to announce the first real bona-fide Kepler-based GPU, the GT640m, which powers an Acer Ultrabook, the M3. Details are short.
  • Tablets and smartphones: Why PC vendors should panic

    AnalysisShipping through its traditional PC partners, the same ones who’ve struggled to shift into the tablet gear, this will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for the likes of Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, Dell and Acer to jump on the tablet bandwagon.
  • Acer becomes London Paralympic Games sponsor

    Taiwanese hardwarecompany Acer has just announced that it is putting its support behind the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and has officially signed an agreement with the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)
  • Indian PC market sees desktop decline

    Shipments from the multinational top four vendors – also including Acer – accounted for the lion’s share of the market, with 53.1 percent.   This meant a decline for local vendor HCL which saw a 53.1 percent decline to 5.5 percent of the market.
  • UK PC suppliers pray for Windows 8

    But other brands really suffered. Acer lost nearly half of its market, while HP nearly 16 percent, and Dell nine percent. Only Lenovo increased by 14 percent.
  • Ultrabook prices set to drop in run up to Ivy Bridge

    While prices haven't substantially dropped in the UK, the US is seeing some more action. Acer’s S3 , somewhat of an oddity with a hard disk drive, has seen price drops to $799, while Lenovo and HP have lowered prices by as much as 25 percent and 21 percent.
  • AMD planning cut price "ultrabook"

    According to Digitimes, AMD's new platform is expected to attract vendors such as HP, Acer and Asustek away from the Intel "vision

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