The chairman of Acer Inc., the world’s fourth largest PC vendor, forecast the company’s PC shipments will grow by as much as 50 percent year-on-year in the first quarter and 40 percent for all of 2007, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
Acer Chairman J.T. Wang made the prediction on Monday at a Lunar New Year celebration, according to a company spokesman. The story was first reported in the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, which said the reasons for strong growth included stronger than expected shipments of PCs armed with Microsoft Corp.’s new Vista OS and lower PC prices resulting from a price war on central processing units, the brains of a PC, between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The spokesman could not immediately confirm the reasons for stronger shipments, but said Acer is seeing brisk growth in emerging markets.
