Acer maintains tablet shipment target

On the impact from Thailand’s flooding,Acer said there must be an impact on the hard drive disk (HDD) supply chain but it is difficult to assess now.

Up to Thursday,Acer Thailand is still operating fully,Acer President Jim Wong told an investor conference. The company has a mainly sales operation in Thailand.

The Taiwanese PC vendor last week reported a worse-than-expected unaudited net loss in the third quarter as it struggles with stiff competition from tablet PCs and the effects of a restructuring,but said inventories have significantly reduced.

In July to September,Acer posted a net loss of T$1.1 billion ($36.37 million),worse than a consensus forecast of an T$807.5 million loss from 12 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

The figure compared with a net loss of T$6.79 billion in the second quarter. In the third quarter a year earlier,net profit was T$4.29 billion.