Taiwan's Acer plans to spin off its contract or original equipment manufacturing (OEM) unit to weather the global slump in PC sales.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Acer Inc. said this week that it has finished negotiations with the Taiwanese government to spin off its Design, Manufacturing and Services unit into a newly independent company ...

Despite the Acer's threat to "abandon" the Windows platform altogether if Microsoft will not relent in its drive toward Surface, I doubt Acer has much in the way of a back up plan if it did carry ...

Acer separates OEM and brand operations Acer Group will establish Acer Brand Global Operation (ABGO), which includes Acer Communication and Multimedia (ACM). Acer Inc. will separate into two ...

IT vendor Acer is seeking a manufacturing partner for OEM production of smartphones in Indonesia to avoid the country's high customs duty on imported smartphones and will make a final decision in ...

The Financial Times reports that Acer (2353) CEO JT Wang thinks that Microsoft has built a nice little tablet and that it would be a shame if it just happened to lead to an OEM revolt.

Acer plans to implement a corporate restructuring project and divide its business into three major segments – PC, cloud and data center management, and re-investment businesses. According to ...

Microsoft earlier this week said it's sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses to date, though admitted that figure includes pre-installed copies of the touch-friendly operating system to retailers and ...

Acer head JT Wang has urged Microsoft to reconsider releasing its own Surface hardware, warning that the move will be bad for manufacturers such as Acer. Wang became the first chief of a PC ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 15, 2013) - Acer America today announced it has won the 2013 Microsoft U.S. Multinational OEM Partner of the Year Award for the United States. The company was ...

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek® today announced Acer as a new data center OEM partner. Acer will incorporate Asetek liquid cooling technology into its Altos dual Skylake high ...