Acer’s internet revenue is up 110% prior to now few months regardless of the Trump administration’s tariffs and naturally it is promising extra ‘AI options’ to return

Tech firm Acer has had regular development over the past 12 months or so. Regardless of coping with the insecurity of tariffs, it has someway managed a internet revenue of 110.6% larger this quarter versus the final.

In Q1 of 2025, Acer reported consolidated revenues of 61.34 billion New Taiwanese {dollars} ($2.05 billion) with a gross revenue of NT$6.48 billion ($217 million). Ending up with a internet revenue of NT$515 million ($17 million).

Right this moment, it studies an identical consolidated income of NT$66.53 billion ($2.2 billion), but a internet revenue of NT$1.08 billion ($36 million). This makes for a development of 110.6% because the 12 months has progressed.

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The online revenue determine is probably going the one highlighted within the headline for Acer’s announcement because it’s the most important uplift from the earlier quarter. Although in This autumn 2024, a busy time of 12 months for tech, it had already earned a internet revenue of NT$1.43 billion.

Web revenue is income minus all bills, which signifies that, with related income, Acer managed to chop prices in Q2 of 2025, seemingly and not using a mega spherical of layoffs like another tech firms. The report says that is all “regardless of the affect from trade charges and tariffs”.

You could be questioning how that is occurred for a tech firm when tariffs are ramping up and down for varied items coming into the US. Properly, these might nonetheless play an element within the last reckoning for the 12 months. Tariffs have taken up an enormous a part of the dialog round tech, and never solely make customers fear about their costs spiking, however with Acer getting in CPUs, GPUs, and different elements for its laptops and gaming PCs, tariffs might have an effect on its enterprise mannequin.

Lately, it was introduced that chips made exterior of the US would obtain a 100% tariff until these firms have been additionally constructing in America. This implies the likes of TSMC, Nvidia, and Samsung are unlikely to be hit, however operations out of Malaysia and the Philippines are more likely to have an effect on competing manufacturing.

Acer presently has a line of gaming laptops with RTX 50-series GPUs in them, and these got here out in the course of Q2, so they’re considerably reflective within the last outcomes.

Based on the announcement, Acer is about to launch extra merchandise at its subsequent world press convention held on September 3 in Berlin. It additionally introduced within the launch that Acer shall be showcasing “AI options throughout {hardware}, software program, and companies.”

Acer presently has AI PCs, which is to say PCs with built-in assist for Copilot and Gemini, however Acer has not but introduced its personal model of AI. This wording might recommend some kind of AI program, like these introduced by Nvidia and Razer, or simply extra environment friendly workflows to implement different firms’ AI.

I, for one, am nonetheless ready for the Acer Nitro Blaze, its upcoming gaming handheld vary, to launch. It was initially purported to launch in Q2, however we nonetheless have not seen it but.

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