14 DAY TRIAL // One thing that Acer can't claim is that it has been progressing on the financial front and in terms of market relevance.
Sure, it's still one of the best-known PC makers, but its market share and financial situation have been deteriorating.
Case in point, between an investment into industrial design capability expansion and rising DRAM quotes, it lost more money than it made in the second quarter of 2013.
For whoever wants to know the numbers, consolidated revenues were of NT$89.378 billion or US$2.99 billion / €2.24 billion, but the net loss was of NT$343 million / $11.48 million / €8.6 million.
Here's hoping that the new executive actually manages to save the corporation's desktop business. Sure, Acer is more into laptops now, but it never hurts to have a fallback.