When requested about making merchandise in India, Chen mentioned, “We don’t manufacture, but India is an exception.” Acer lately collaborated with Dixon to fabricate laptops. Noida-based Dixon Technologies is an electronics manufacturing companies firm that manufactures screens, projectors, and sensible residence home equipment for India and overseas. “We are looking at other possibilities that can fully utilise the manufacturing facility,” the CEO added, hinting at the potential of manufacturing different merchandise in India.

According to the current IDC report, Acer is the fifth largest PC firm in India in Q3 2023 with an 11.6 per cent market share and it is usually one of many main monitor manufacturers within the nation. At current, Acer’s manufacturing facility can manufacture as much as 5 lakh laptops per 12 months, and the corporate additionally confirmed that it’s compliant with the rules, which require manufacturers to fabricate at the very least 20 per cent of laptops within the nation. Acer additionally confirmed that the corporate additionally exports India-made laptops.

The firm has additionally licensed its branding to Indkal Technologies to fabricate sensible TVs in India. Similarly, the model has additionally collaborated with eBikeGo to launch electrical autos such because the MUVI 125 4G. Besides, Acer additionally sells a number of sensible residence home equipment resembling sensible air purifiers.

When requested about Arm-based laptops from Acer, Jason mentioned, the corporate has been providing Arm-based Chromebooks for the final 4 years. He additionally said that Windows PCs are more likely to stay totally on x86 architecture-based processors due to Microsoft Windows OS with its native x86-based instruction set and operating Windows on an Arm-based chip requires one other layer of emulation, which impacts the efficiency.

Acer has been pushing the idea of acutely aware computing and inexperienced initiative for some time with its Vero branding, and the corporate’s newly introduced Aspire Vero 16 is the corporate’s first “carbon neutral” product and is made out of 60 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic and the trackpad can also be made utilizing ocean-bound plastic.

Acer has additionally made its Vero merchandise repair-friendly, which makes upgrading and repairing a Vero-branded PC loads simpler. The model can also be partnering with choose colleges within the US to supply an eLearning restore program to certified college students and IT professionals.

The writer was in Dubai on the invitation of Acer India.