Taiwan's MSI gunning to be the HTC of tablets

LA Times
July 13, 2010

As HTC carries out its so-far successful invasion of the U.S. cellphone market, the Taiwanese company's neighbor to the north is staging an American blitz of its own.

Micro-Star International (MSI) is preparing an arsenal of touch-screen computers while riding the netbook wave with a series of budget-friendly laptops. The netbook trend appears to be waning, according to a report by Barclays Capital, and analysts and many manufacturers including MSI expect it to be supplanted by tablets.

Of the 24 all-in-one desktops that MSI advertises on its website, two-thirds include touch-screen monitors. Ten of those products employ multitouch technology -- pinching two fingers to zoom out on a photo, for example -- within Microsoft's Windows 7.

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