Taiwan's Acer sees 2007 shipments up 30-40pc

Taipei, May 3: Taiwan's Acer Inc. , the world's third-largest PC vendor, said on Thursday it expects its personal computer and notebook shipments to rise 30 to 40 percent in 2007 over last year.

''Our consumer products are doing better and this is actually a conservative forecast,'' Acer Chairman J.T. Wang said at a news conference.

Acer posted last week a market-beating 41 percent rise in first-quarter (January-March) net profit to T$5.66 billion (US$170 million), higher than T$4.02 billion a year ago.

The Taiwan firm competes with PC brands like Hewlett-Packard Co. , Dell Inc. and Lenovo .(US$1=T$33.3)

Reuters