Acer’s Chairman said that the company will achieve its 30 million notebooks shipment goal for the year 2009 and now the company aims to ship more than 40 million units in 2010. Acer earlier forecasted that it will ship 33-37 million notebooks in 2010, but a very healthy rise in sales in mid 2009 gave the company more confidence that it will reach 40 million mark in 2010.

Acer this year beat Dell to become number two notebook makers in the world and now the company aims to become the number one vendor in 2010 by beating HP. However, beating HP won’t be an easy job, as Acer will have to generate higher shipment growth than the market average in 2010. Also component shortage can be a factor as supplies of optical drives, panels, hard disk drives, and graphics chips remain tight.

Despite that, odds are in favor of Acer achieving their 40 million units shipment in 2010, as the company has doubled its annual notebook shipments in just two years from 15.4 million in 2007 to over 30 million in 2009.
[Via Digitimes]