In February of last year, Acer sent Su Chin-kun, a general plant manager in Hsinchu at the time, along with Niu Chih- hao from Acer's California branch company, to El Paso to begin setting up a company there and to search the Mexican border area for an appropriate site for construction.
去年二月，宏便派出原本在新竹擔任總廠長的蘇錦坤，以及美國加州分公司的牛志豪，先到艾爾帕索籌設公司，並同時找尋墨國境內適合的土地，籌設大廠。