Taiwan PC Makers See Signs of Bottom

Taiwan’s three major personal-computer makers reported mixed results in the first quarter, but all of them signaled that the market may have bottomed out and conditions are slowly improving.Acer Inc. posted a 31% drop in profit as consumers shifted to lower-priced computers amid a slowdown in the global economy. Contract laptop manufacturers Quanta Computer Inc. and Compal Electronics Inc. fared better than Acer, due in part to foreign-exchange gains.
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