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PETALING JAYA, November 12, 2026 – Acer Malaysia has launched a new range of point-of-sale equipment, POSWARE, and said it is targeting 1,000 units in Malaysia by the end of 2027, Bernama reported from the launch.
The range is being offered in collaboration with SurfsTeK Alliance Sdn Bhd, known at the event as SurfsTek Malaysia, and is aimed at local retailers and food and beverage operators. Acer Malaysia will supply the hardware and provide after-sales support. Wong Kim Kean, Acer Malaysia’s senior business development manager, said the equipment was intended for businesses from neighbourhood cafés and restaurants to supermarkets and hypermarkets, including checkout transactions and integration with existing retail systems. “We understand that for businesses, reliability is a main factor, just as important as performance,” he said. Wong added that Acer’s nationwide after-sales network would provide local technical support.
John Lim, chief sales officer at SurfsTek Malaysia, said the launch featured an all-in-one ordering terminal and a kitchen display system designed to work together. Orders placed at the front counter could be sent directly to the kitchen display, so that staff could see which food and drinks to prepare. The ordering terminal, he said, supported self-checkout and included a touchscreen, a built-in receipt printer and a scanner that could read barcodes and QR codes. A second screen could face customers and display advertisements.
Lim said the terminal was available with Intel N95, Core i3 and Core i5 processor options and could be configured to a customer’s requirements. The kitchen display system had a multi-touch screen and an aluminium casing that, he said, dissipated heat more effectively than plastic. Each terminal would come with a 13-month warranty starting on the date it was delivered to the end customer. Indicative end-user prices, Bernama reported, started at RM6,999 for the all-in-one terminal and RM4,999 for the kitchen display system.
Those prices are list figures given at the launch, not a government grant or a subsidy, and they may vary once systems are configured. The 1,000-unit target by the end of 2027 is the company’s own ambition, not a signed order book, and the statement does not say how many units have already been sold. The commercial pitch is straightforward: a local hardware brand, a software and systems partner, and a service network already in the country, aimed at cafés and shops that want the front counter and the kitchen on the same ticket.
Whether Malaysian retailers take up the range in the volumes Acer has set out will be a matter for the next year and a half. What Thursday’s launch settles is the product, the partnership, the warranty, the starting prices and the public target. Bernama reported the launch from Petaling Jaya on November 12. For a company better known here for laptops, it is a deliberate step into the tills and the kitchen screens of the domestic retail trade, with a local partner responsible for the ordering software and kitchen link.
Source : Bernama, Acer Malaysia Launches POSWARE Range, Targets 1,000 Units By End-2027.
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