The negative impact on PC sales from tablets is decreasing and global PC demand is expected to significantly rebound in the second half of 2014, Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek Computer said at the company's 2014 shareholders meeting on June 17.
Consumers buy tablets for entertainment and will buy PCs for work, generating substantial demand for PCs, Shih said.
As demand for PCs highly overlaps that for smartphones and tablets, Asustek will launch various PCs, smartphones and tablets in 2014, Shih said. Asustek expects revenues from all product lines other than PCs to match or even exceed those from PCs in 2017, Shih indicated.
Asustek's shareholders, at the meeting, approved a cash dividend per share of NT$19.50 (US$0.65) for 2013.
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