Peddler of cheap and cheerful notebooks, Acer said that it is confident that it will make a buck or two off corporate sales this year.

Company chairman JT Wang told a technical forum in Taipei that he expects expects its notebook shipments will see significant growth in the second half of 2010 due to recovery in the enterprise PC market.

Wang pointed out that the notebook industry will continue to see growth for the next five years and he wants Acer to become the world's largest notebook vendor. To do that of course he has to kick the likes of HP and Dell out of the corporate market, something he is fairly sure he can do.

Acer is also gearing up for the smartphone market. Smartphones' gross margin can reach 15-20 per cent, higher than the company's overall gross margin of 10 per cent, he he said.

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