Acer: Wintel will rise Apple's decline Android flat

Needless to say, the PC market will enter an era of multi-platform "blooming" in 2012. Wang Zhentang, chairman of Acer, analyzes that Apple, Google and Wintel Alliance (Microsoft and Intel cooperation) will form a trident situation in the future, and promote the PC industry. increase.

Although many people believe that the previously unbreakable coalition relationship between Microsoft and Intel had already collapsed in front of their respective interests, Wang Zhentang did not think otherwise. He predicted that in the next two years, the growth of the Apple platform will gradually slow down, and instead it will be The rapid growth of the Wintel platform.

Wang Zhentang believes that once the ultrabook price drops to 699 US dollars in 2012, the Wintel platform will enter a period of rapid growth.

For Google, which is rapidly growing up and occupying the market through Android, although its market goal is still taking the expansionary route, Wang Zhentang said that the platform will only perform in the PC industry in the future.

At the same time, he also revealed that the shortage of hard drives caused by the flooding in Thailand has restricted the shipment of PCs in the fourth quarter of 2011, but given that the current recovery of HDD production is better than expected, it is expected that the shortage will be obtained in the first quarter of 2012. improve.