A spokeman for the Taiwanese outfit, Benson Lin, said it was the firm's wee Eee PC which had laid the foundations for the growth. That and the fact it started from a small bit of business in the first place, we suspect.
“We see a lot of potential for growth in the notebooks market. One out of four computers shipped in India in FY 2007-08 was a notebook," he said.
He claimed the consumer notebook market in the country had grown by 141 per cent while the desktop sector had shrunk by six per cent.
Eee drives Asus to new heights in India
Asustek said its Indian operations grew by 1100 per cent in the 2007-08 financial year, according to the IT Examiner.
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