ASUS is motivated to acquire Toshiba's personal computer business famous for "dynabook", currently negotiating



ASUS famous for the netbook "EeePC" series etc. has shown that he is motivated to acquire Toshiba's PC business known as "dynabook".

It is already said that negotiations on acquisitions are being brought to Toshiba, but as with IBM once sold the notebook computer "ThinkPad" brand to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo, "dynabook" could be the brand of ASUS Is there gender?

Details are as below.
Asustek considering acquisition to achieve goal of becoming top-3 notebook vendor, in talks with Toshiba, says paper

According to this article, ASUS is planning to jump to the top three in the laptop market in 2011. And as a measure to jump into the top three, it is said that Mr. Jonney Shih, Chairman of the company, is considering Toshiba's acquisition of PC business.

In addition, ASUS has already bought Toshiba the acquisition of PC business, but Shih says "There are no results yet."

Incidentally, according to IDC's report on market research of the IT industry on a global scale,PC share in the third quarter of 2009HP (Hewlett-Packard) ranked first, Acer ranked second, Dell ranked third, Lenovo ranked fourth, Toshiba ranked fifth, ASUS is in the "Other" category.

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