Acer saw its June revenues grow significantly by 43.06% on month to reach NT$36.55 billion (US$1.22 billion), and second-quarter revenues also grew 6.02% sequentially to reach NT$81.35 billion. Acer founder Stan Shih expects the company's gross margins in the second quarter to have improved from the first.
Shih also said that the company is seeing strong demand for its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform, but is lacking manpower to help strengthen the product line; therefore, the company has been aggressively recruiting talent recently, hoping to quickly fill the gap.
Shih will pay a visit to Shenzhen, China in August to promote the BYOC platform to local enterprises. The company is also looking to visit Malaysia and Hangzhou, China for related business. Shih noted that Acer has recently landed orders for its Acer Open Platform (AOP), which some market watchers believe that the client should be a Japan-based game console player.
According to IDC, Acer's second quarter PC shipments declined 2.5%, which was a marked improvement over recent trends for the company.However, Acer continues to diversify its business, with efforts into mobile devices and cloud storage as well as competitively priced PCs.
