In the third quarter this year, Asustek Computer has sold 2.3 million tablets - more than in the previous three quarters combined. Asus Chapter is very pleased with sales of Nexus 7, but did not go into details on the supply of the tablet.
Net profit of Asustek Computer, increased in the third quarter from $ 160 million to $ 230 million, an increase compared with the similar period last year was 43%. Gross revenue also increased by 9% to $ 3.8 billion .In the third quarter from the sale of tablets all models the company gets 16% of revenue.
In the third quarter Asus reached record levels for the past four years. Tablets supply reached 2.6 million units, within a year the company will supply about 6.3 million tablets. The next year, Asus plans to ship at least 10 million tablet computers. This will allow the company to become the second largest producer of tablets after Apple. In addition, in 2013, Asustek expects to become the largest manufacturer of laptops with touch screen.
Asustek do not afraid Competition from tablet presented yesterday Nexus 10, which Google sells together with Samsung, , because it intend to improve the ratio of performance and price of its tablet Transformer. If we talk about seven-inch tablet, in the segment of Android devices, their share exceeds 70%. Bet on the platform Windows 8/RT the company is not yet ready, preferring to focus on devices running Google Android. The high price and large enough body thickness of Microsoft Surface, according to Asustek head , allow them to find buyers primarily in the corporate sector. Asus itself is ready to offer cheaper devices running Microsoft operating systems .