Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Its products include desktop PCs, laptop PCs,
Acer Building in Taipei, Taiwan
Acer America Headquarters in San Jose
Acer uit 2007 met USB-stick
Gateway, Inc., previously Gateway 2000, Inc., was an American computer company originally based in Iowa and South Dakota. Founded by Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond in 1985, the company developed, manufact
Acer Inc.
…traditional distribution channels targeting retail consumers when some rivals were pursuing online sales and business customers. In 2007, Acer bought Gateway in the United States and Packard Bell in Europe, and became the third-largest provider of computers and the second largest for notebooks, achieving…
Site of former headquarters in North Sioux City, South Dakota, pictured in 2023
Loading dock of Gateway's former headquarters in North Sioux City. Note the black splotch in the far-left end; the entire complex was once painted white with black splotches, in keeping with the company's corporate identity.
A pizza-box form-factor desktop computer manufactured by Gateway, circa mid-1990s
Gateway HandBook, subnotebook computer manufactured beginning in 1992