From January 11 to 14, personal computer manufacturer Acer held an online exhibition and updated its main product lines, including thin and light notebooks, e-sports PCs, content creation computers, etc., as well as monitors, projectors, and computer peripherals.

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html From November 11th to 14th, personal computer manufacturer Acer (Acer) held an online exhibition and updated its main product lines, including thin and light notebooks, e-sports PCs, content creation computers, etc. , as well as monitors, projectors, and computer peripherals.

The epidemic has promoted the recovery of the personal computer market, and computer manufacturers such as Acer, Lenovo are ushering in the best time in ten years. Correspondingly, the use of PC chips has increased. Major manufacturers such as Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD have increased investment and expanded their PC chip product lines. New players such as Qualcomm and MediaTek have also been added.

The fierce competition among major PC chip manufacturers can also be seen in Acer. Generally speaking, whenever chip manufacturers release new chips, Acer is usually among the first to release new products, and this year is no exception. The newly launched Predator Blade 500SE and Tomahawk 300 notebooks both use the freshly released 12th generation Core processors and Nvidia's GeForce RTX30 series mobile graphics cards. The lower-positioned Shadow Knight Qing notebook is equipped with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU, equipped with two versions of the 12th generation Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 6000 series processors.

Major chip manufacturers are actively entering each other's areas of advantage. For example, the 16-inch version of the Extraordinary X series notebook computer is equipped with Intel's 12th generation Core processor and Intel Arc independent graphics card, which is the first batch of Intel independent graphics cards. The graphics card is laptop , and the 14-inch version of Feibu X at the same time is equipped with NVIDIA RTX3050/3050 Ti series graphics cards.

Acer launched a notebook computer equipped with Intel independent graphics, showing Intel's wooing of PC manufacturers after entering the independent graphics card market. However, according to information on Intel's official website, the launch time of its Ruixuan graphics card has been changed from the first quarter to this year. This may be due to chip production capacity issues, and the launch of related computer products is expected to be delayed.

It is worth mentioning that in the Chromebook product line released by Acer overseas, MediaTek, a chip player rarely seen in the past, has also appeared. Chromebook is a laptop product using Google Chrome OS system and is mainly used in the education market. Acer released three Chromebook computers this time. The mid-range Spin 513 uses the rare MediaTek 8-core Kompanio 1380 processor and can flip the screen to be used as a tablet.

In addition, Acer is also trying to further create differentiation in the PC market. The ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs super-sensory space naked-eye 3D notebook, which focuses on content production people, is one of them. Previously, this notebook was mainly tested for a small number of users to solicit feedback. At present, Has been officially mass-produced. Acer said that the computer uses the 11th generation Intel Core processor and NVIDIA RTX 3080 independent graphics. It tracks the user's face and eye position and dynamics through the top stereo camera, and uses real-time rendering technology to present stereoscopic 3D images, so that users do not need to Wearing glasses can directly realize the naked-eye 3D effect.

Market research company Gartner reports that personal computer shipments in 2021 will be 339.8 million units, an increase of approximately 9.9% from the previous year. Industry data shows that although material shortages and bottlenecks dragged down PC shipments in the fourth quarter of last year, the PC recovery is expected to continue this year.