Acer Shrugs Off Sandy Bridge Blunder, Still Aims to Ship 45 Million Notebooks

Posted 02/09/2011 at 6:05am | by Paul Lilly

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The whole Sandy Bridge situation doesn't have Acer wavering on its News Year's resolution to sell a boatload of notebooks. That's especially true now that Intel has green lighted shipments of 6-series motherboards to PC makers who cross their hearts and promise not configure builds using SATA ports potentially affected by the design flaw. Even though Sandy Bridge laptops account for a fifth of all notebooks Acer has either shipped or plans to ship in 2011, the OEM still aims to blitz the market with anywhere from 40-45 million notebook shipments by the end of the year, DigiTimes reports.

Acer expects the Sandy Bridge situation to affect first quarter revenues by just 1-2 percent, and after that, it will be business as usual. For Acer, that means pumping out as many products as it can. Should Acer meet its goal of shipping 40-45 million notebooks, it will have outpaced last year's numbers by 15-20 percent.

The OEM is also optimistic about its smartphone business and hopes to ship more than 5 million units in 2011. Acer's been a bit quiet on the smartphone front as of late, though the company's upcoming Liquid Mini E310 did recently win FCC approval. The E310 is one of the phones Acer was showing off at CES. It sports a 600MHz Qualcomm 7227 processor, a 3.2-inch 480x320 screen, 512MB of RAM, DLNA compatibility, and a 5MP camera all wrapped in Android 2.2 (Froyo).