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Acer Bullish on Low Cost Laptops, Smartphones

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Gianfranco LanciAcer says its PC shipments will total 25m to 30m this year, up from about 20m.

President Gianfranco Lanci also forecasts a 40% annual rise in laptop shipments, and about 5m to 7m units will be those new low-cost Atom-based laptops Acer will launch at Computex in June… Hmmm, those two forecasts (up 5-10m in total units and up 5-7m from low-cost laptops) seem to share a common number.

Acer says revenue during Q2 will be slightly down from Q1…but wait until those low cost laptops hit total revenue per unit figures.
That may be why Acer hopes to launch its first smartphone at end of this year and build that category to 10% of revenue. "The worldwide smart phone market is estimated to grow by more than 30% by 2011," notes Lanci.

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