Acer's MAC footprint spans several IEEE registrant variants that should be normalized to one canonical vendor: "Acer Incorporated", "Acer Inc.", "ACER TECHNOLOGIES CORP.", and "Acer Computer(Shanghai) Limited" (each holding roughly one MA-L block). The registrants are in Taiwan, with the Shanghai entity in China. Verified samples include 00:01:24 → "Acer Incorporated", C0:98:79 → "Acer Inc.", and 18:06:FF → "Acer Computer(Shanghai) Limited". These OUIs appear on Acer-branded laptops, desktops, monitors, tablets, Chromebooks, and projectors. Acer is a brand-name PC maker, and unlike its former contract-manufacturing arms — which were spun off as Wistron (around 2000–2001) and, separately, the design/ODM business that became Pegatron, both already documented as distinct ODM entities — an Acer OUI generally maps to the Acer brand. Acer also owns sub-brands including Predator (gaming) and the legacy Gateway and Packard Bell brands. For triage, an Acer OUI generally maps to Acer-branded computing devices, while contract-manufactured hardware ships under Wistron, Pegatron, or other ODM OUIs rather than Acer's.
- IEEE assignment
- multiple variants — 00:01:24 → "Acer Incorporated"; C0:98:79 → "Acer Inc."; 18:06:FF → "Acer Computer(Shanghai) Limited"; plus "ACER TECHNOLOGIES CORP." (00:00:E2) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L
- Registry / block size
- MA-L across the variants; ~4 MA-L blocks total across the four distinct Acer-brand strings [Confirmed] — maclookup.app (IEEE-derived). NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (oui.csv columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any "date registered" from third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.
- HQ / country
- New Taipei City / Hsinchu, Taiwan (the "Acer Computer(Shanghai) Limited" entity is in China) [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Company status
- active brand-name PC maker; contract-manufacturing arm spun off as Wistron (~2000–2001); design/ODM business later became Pegatron (both separate IEEE entities) [Confirmed] — widely reported
- Device types
- laptops, desktops, monitors, tablets, Chromebooks, projectors [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Notable products
- Aspire, Swift, Predator (gaming sub-brand); legacy Gateway and Packard Bell brands
- Verified prefix sample
- 00:01:24 ("Acer Incorporated"), C0:98:79 ("Acer Inc."), 18:06:FF ("Acer Computer(Shanghai) Limited") [Confirmed] — maclookup.app, cleancss.com
- Special note
- Multiple legacy registrant variants should be normalized to one canonical "Acer" vendor record. OUI generally maps to the Acer brand (unlike the spun-off Wistron/Pegatron ODMs). A separately-named "ACER NETXUS INC." (00:60:67) is a distinct registrant. [Confirmed]
- Related vendors
- Wistron (spun off ~2000–2001), Pegatron (later ODM spinoff) — both separate entities; Gateway, Packard Bell (legacy brands)
- Analyst note
- An Acer OUI generally maps to Acer-branded computing devices; contract-manufactured hardware ships under Wistron/Pegatron/other ODM OUIs, not Acer's.