ELECTRONICS giant Acer anticipates growing shipments by 10 percent this year due to accelerating demand for gaming computer systems.
“Acer captured nearly 20 percent [growth] in gaming, [and] the market share was sincerely 29 percent in 2018,” Acer Philippines Sales and Marketing Director Sue Cashmere Ong-Lim currently advised reporters.
Acer is currently the second leading non-public pc (PC) emblem for gaming for the remaining 12 months, trailing leader Asus with a marketplace share of 31 percent. However, Acer remains the top canine for the tenth year in the basic Philippine PC marketplace.
Figures from intelligence company International Data Corp. (IDC) mentioned that the Philippines shipped 2.45 million PC units last year, of which 20 percent, or 490,000 devices, were accounted for by Acer. “We are foreseeing an increase for Acer. We are projecting perhaps 10 percent [of shipment growth this year],” Lim said.
2018 Acer’s shipments expanded by 14 percent because of a contract with the Department of Education (DepEd) to supply PC devices to public schools.
Lim stated that hundreds of public elementary and high schools have no laptop laboratories, and the DepEd is starting to fill in that gap. With the objective of one laptop being to at least one scholar, Acer is attempting to penetrate the general public colleges with their capsules and computer systems.
The electronics multinational has but to ink every other agreement with the DepEd. Still, Lim is positive the government will bid on every other set of PC requirements for public colleges.
Acer’s operations incorporate a percentage of purchaser PCs, 30 percent of business computers, and a rate of gaming units, Lim said. For the 10th instant 12 months, Acer changed hailed because of the enterprise chief for PC with a market share of 20 percent, followed by Lenovo at 14 percent, HP at 12 percent, Asus at 11 percent, and Dell at 10 percent.
