Stan Shih, Acer honorary chairman and chief architect of BYOC said, “Together with our partners, we will create value and build a mechanism to balance interests to change the world in the era of cloud computing.”

The implementation of all aspects of Acer’s BYOC strategy will be fully supported by Acer’s BYOC and Tablet Business Group, in collaboration with technology partners to develop products and services via the Acer Open Platform (AOP).

Maverick Shih, President of Acer’s BYOC and Tablet Business Group said, “To help promote our partner’s BYOC enabled products and services, Acer has created the ‘Acer BYOC empowered’ mark, so that partners can draw on Acer's global brand and channel for joint promotion and sharing of results.”

In terms of Connected Car, Acer will provide its partners with the AOP platform and the necessary hardware. In healthcare, partners can work with Acer on products and services, and promote via the ‘ab’ sub-brand or under the “Acer BYOC empowered” umbrella with AOP and hardware support.

In telecommunications, with a new C&C (Computing & Communication) focus , Acer will license software and jointly develop and outsource professional services and promote with ‘Acer BYOC empowered’, while expanding the AOP to become a C&C platform to jointly develop and innovate new applications and services. In Connected Home Acer will provide AOP applications and promotion through Acer products.

Acer today signed letters of intent with three new partners to the BYOC alliance: Egis Technology Inc.(EgisTec), a leading sensor provider of fingerprint biometrics and data encryption; APEX Medical Corporation, a prominent support surfaces product manufacturer in Asia and a leading company in the medical care industry; and EBM Technologies, Inc., creates and markets systems that automate patients' images and information for diagnosis through web-based medical management solutions.