Although Taiwan's top-four notebook makers saw their shipments drop by around 30% on month in January this year, total shipments for the four makers (notebooks and netbooks combined)...
Wistron chairman Simon Lin has said that the company will not compete for netbook orders in 2009 since netbook products do not provide much toward overall profitability, however,...
BYD Electronics, the Hong Kong-listed OEM handset subsidiary of China-based BYD Company, plans to venture into the production of OEM netbooks, according to media reports in China.
Although no PC vendor has yet officially confirmed it is planning to produce products based on Nvidia's Ion platform, according to Nvidia, some PC vendors have adopted the chipset...
CMOS image sensor makers have seen a warming up of image sensor orders for low-end traditional notebooks mostly from Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell. Order visibility extends until...
Despite an expected decline in PCB production value, PCB makers expect netbook and smartphone applications to be growth drivers in 2009, benefiting related PCB companies Unitech Printed...
Asustek Computer is currently facing three major risks that could damage its profitability in the future, according to a Goldman Sachs' report as cited by the Chinese-language Commercial...
Acer is reportedly considering phasing out its consumer 8.9-inch Aspire one in the second quarter of 2009 to make way for the upcoming 10.1-inch model, according to notebook industry...
MIPS Technologies has successfully entered the market for Linux-based netbook platforms in China, according to Mark Pittman, vice president of Asia Pacific sales at MIPS.
Taiwan IC design companies have seen stronger orders in January from netbook OEMs thanks to the upcoming launches of new generation Acer Aspire One netbooks as well as Asustek Computer's...
In addition to Asustek Computer, which did not meet its shipment goal of five million netbooks for 2008, some market watchers believe that Acer has also missed out on its shipment...
Intel plans to launch its next generation Atom CPU (codenamed Pineview) in the second half of 2009 with a single-core version targeting netbooks and a dual-core for nettops, according...
Asustek Computer plans to announce a series of business reorganization plans after the Lunar New Year break, according to Jerry Shen, president of the company.
