Micro Center to sell Gateway products
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PC maker Gateway Inc. announced on Sunday that its recent line of laptop computers, desktop computers, and monitors will be available to customers at Micro Center.
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ProLiant ML150 G2 offers a Xeon chip or two for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Gateway has announced it will start sales on December 10 of own-brand high-performance personal computers in Japan through four consumer electronics volume retailers.
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Gateway&#39;s relationship with Micro Center is &quot;very exciting,&quot; said Bob Davidson, senior vice president of retail at Gateway.
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The new Gateway One is an all-in-one design that's the successor to Gateway's Profile series PCs.
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(InfoWorld) - People fearing they might miss Gateway's signature black-and-white dairy cow PC boxes after the company is acquired by Acer Inc. have little reason to worry: Acer not only plans to keep the Gateway Inc. brand just the way it is, the Taiwanese company hopes to expand it. "A strong U.S. brand such as Gateway's can be expanded overseas into other markets," said Gianfranco Lanci, president of Acer, in a video feed at the Taipei news conference to announce the deal. Acer's determination to grow the brand should be some relief to American users. Gateway is the fourth biggest PC brand in the U.S., and popular among consumers. But until now, Acer has sold all of its products under its own name. Its strategy going forward is to start using multiple brands in all areas of the world, including the Gateway brand, as well as eMachines and possibly Packard Bell.Â Gateway plans to buy Packard Bell BV, which would ultimately end up as another Acer brand once the Acer-Gateway deal is finalized. Going forward, Acer plans to combine the talents of each company in order to expand product offerings for users. For example, Gateway is strong in desktop monitors, where Acer is weak, so Acer will use some Gateway technology to improve its offerings, said Lanci. The two companies will see where they can share designs and technology to improve their entire desktop and laptop PC line-ups, and expand this product cooperation to Packard Bell if a deal for the company is made. The deal could also mean more PC bargains for users. Becoming larger means Acer can gain better volume discounts when negotiating with parts suppliers. In addition, competition with Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. should remain fierce, and the companies all work hard to keep prices low. Acer agreed to buy Gateway in an all-cash deal valued at US$710 million. The two companies combined will become the world's third largest PC vendor by shipments, at around 20 million desktops and laptops a year, and will transform Acer into a multibrand company. The Acer-Gateway deal still faces regulatory and shareholder scrutiny before being finalized. The boards of directors of both companies have already signed off on the agreement. Acer expects to gain $150 million worth of efficiencies via the Gateway deal, in expanding product lines, cross-selling products, cost cutting and in other ways. The Taiwanese company said Gateway employees would be critical to its success in expanding the brand, but did not say whether it would cut staff. Â
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IRVINE, Calif. -- Gateway Inc., a struggling computer maker that has accepted a buyout offer from a Taiwan-based company, said Wednesday it will sell its professional business unit to MPC Corp. in a deal valued at about $90 million.
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Acer Inc. plans to acquire Gateway Inc. in a deal worth $710 million that Acer says will make it the world's third-largest PC vendor.
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Gateway has added another marquee name to the roster of retailers that sell its line of personal computers and other products: Micro Center. Gateway's new line of notebooks, desktops and monitors are now available at the retailer's 20 stores nationwide, says a corporate statement.
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Embracing a new gadget indubitably means parting with some hard earned dinero. But eMachines, purchased by Gateway Inc. , is offering next-generation technology at this-generation prices.
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(InfoWorld) - Gateway will use Intel's Woodcrest chip to power three new midrange servers, including the E-9520T high-performance tower server and the E-9425R and E-9525R rack-mounted servers, all of which were due to be shown Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum trade show. Gateway will emphasize the systems' flexibility as a way to compete withÂ similar Woodcrest-powered serversÂ from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Users can customize the Gateway servers for applications ranging from Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases to Exchange e-mail, Web servers and back-office functions for small and medium-size businesses. Gateway provides that flexibility by allowing each of the servers to run either one of two Woodcrest chips, based on a new, 65-nanometer architecture launched by Intel in June to compete with Opteron chips from Advanced Micro Devices. Users can pick from Intel's 1.6GHz Xeon 5110, 2.0GHZ Xeon 5130, or 3.0GHz Xeon 5160. Gateway had alsoÂ partnered with IntelÂ in August, using the related Conroe Core 2 Duo chip in a line of desktop PCs. Users can also host their hard-drive storage using both high-performance SAS (serial attached SCSI) and cost-efficient SATA II (serial ATA) hard drives in the same system. And IT administrators can remotely boot and troubleshoot the machines using the Web-based Gateway Lights Out system management function. Gateway plans to enhance that capability by the fourth quarter of 2006 with an optional LCD (liquid crystal diode) panel displaying the server's operating status, called the System Management Integrated LCD. Gateway is charging $2,199 for the E-9520T tower with room for 7.5TB of storage, $1,899 for the E-9525R 2U server with room for 4.5TB of storage, and $1,849 for the E-9425R 1U server with room for 3.0TB of storage. All three machines come with one Intel Xeon 5110 chip, the Intel Blackford 5000P chip set, Matrox G200 graphics card, and 35GB ofÂ memory.
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The PC maker is eyeing in-home services to go with its new consumer electronics line.
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Taiwanese PC maker Acer Inc. will acquire Gateway Inc. for US$710 million, Acer announced Monday.
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Gateway Inc. (GTW.N) said on Wednesday its personal computers would be widely available at Office Depot. (ODP.N) in the latest move by the PC maker to broaden distribution at retail stores since acquiring rival eMachines this year.
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Gateway on Friday announced a new desktop, the 700GR, the first machine to use Intel&#39;s âBTXâ architecture, which aligns key components in a wind tunnel-like design for cooler and quieter operation.
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The Taiwanese PC maker has been growing fast. With Gateway, it gets a bigger foothold on U.S. soil.
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The new Gateway will launch a complete line of notebook PCs as one of many steps to revitalize its business after&#160;merging with Acer, an Acer executive said Friday.&quot;Gateway&#39;s problem in the U.S. is that it mainly sells desktops, but the notebook is the fastest growing segment,&quot; said Gianfranco Lanci, president of Acer, during the company&#39;s third quarter investors conference in Taipei.New Gateway laptop PCs could be out as early as the first quarter of next year. Lanci said that no changes to Gateway&#39;s product lineup will be visible until then because it takes at least one quarter to discuss new products with retailers and distributors.Acquiring Gateway will raise Acer&#39;s share of the U.S. market to 11.7 percent, the company believes, and will give it a strong brand presence.Already, the company expects synergies from the acquisition to pan out better than previous forecasts. Acer predicts cost savings will reach $200 million, higher than a previous estimate of $150 million, and even the revised figure could be raised again, executives said.A large portion of that savings will come from volume discounts from component suppliers. &quot;When we have asked component suppliers for volume discounts, so far we have not encountered a single rejection,&quot; said Lanci.The cost of restructuring the Gateway business and integrating it into Acer is likely to be $30 million, Lanci said. The integration will likely be completed by March 2008, he said.The strategy of the new company will be to sell products under the Acer, Gateway, and eMachines brands. Once a&#160;deal to buy Europe&#39;s Packard Bell&#160;is completed, it will add that name to the list as well. The PC industry has changed, said Lanci. It has become a commodity business and in a commodity business it&#39;s better to&#160;sell products using multiple brands, not a single brand as in the PC industry of 10 years ago.&quot;We&#39;re going to run two brands in most regions plus maybe another that we use for special things,&quot; he said.Acer announced a plan to buy Gateway for $710 million in cash in August, and&#160;completed the deal&#160;last week. The company has nearly completed a deal to buy Packard Bell of Europe, as well.&#160;