News - ASUS made $202 million profits during Q1 2013

[HEXUS]

Company not hurt by the PC sales decline as it sells 3 million tablets during Q1.

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[crossy]

Shen believes that the smaller Windows tabs will help them compete better on price with the alternative mobile OSes and expects to be marketing sub-$300 Windows 8 tablets before the year is out.

Is that full-on Windows8, or RT or WindowsPhone8? I'm guessing that it's WP8, although if it was desktop 8 (or even to a lesser extent 8RT) then that's surely very good news?

Declines in PC component and notebook sales were more than offset by healthy sales of tablets.

Cue the headlines presumably "Asus profits health due to tablets"; "Asus keeps taking the tablets"; etc.

[mtyson]

The $300 price point is for Windows 8 tablets. Remember the outgoing Intel CEO said a similar thing a week or so ago.