Profits generated from the production of ODM smartphones have been diminishing rapidly to a level comparable to the manufacture of feature phones, meaning ODMs have to ramp up economies...
While iPad is still selling globally, its negative impact on the global notebook market is declining mainly because tablet PCs, including Android models, focus on entertainment rather...
China-based second-tier smartphone brand vendors have recently been pushing their ultra-low price smartphones, priced at only CNY500 (US$79), in the retail channel, but since these...
Taiwan-based digital camera makers Altek, Ability Enterprise and Asia Optical have been developing MILCs (mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras) and hope to finish product development...
Samsung Electronics has for the first time outsourced notebook production and released initial ODM orders to Compal Electronics, with shipments to begin in June 2012, according to...
Asia Optical, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lens modules and digital cameras, is readjusting the organization of AOF Imaging Technology, its joint venture with Singapore-based Flextronics...
Toshiba will have its ODM partner Quanta Computer begin notebook production at Quanta's factory in Chongqing, western China, in the second half of 2012, according to sources from...
Notebook ODMs, seeing that supply of metal chassis has been tight, are aggressively pushing chassis companies they are invested in to expand capacity, and are also adopting chassis...
Testing specialist Ardentec is expected to see its monthly revenues rise sequentially through June, thanks to rising orders for logic ICs and stable growth in business with IDM companies...
Intel is set to release its next-generation Xeon processor at the end of the second quarter. Since Nvidia and AMD will also release graphics cards that feature PCI Express Gen.3 in...
Asustek Computer plans to decrease ODM production of motherboards by Pegatron beginning mid-2012 and completely end their ODM relationship by the end of the third quarter of 2012,...
As PC vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Asustek Computer have stationed themselves in Chongqing City, western China, and Dell and Lenovo have done so in Chengdu City, their respective...
Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) has begun ODM production of second-generation smartphones for China-based vendor Xiaomi, according to China-based website iMobile. FIH has become...
Pegatron has undertaken exclusive ODM production of a 15-inch ultrabook for Acer since mid-March, with monthly shipments of 100,000 units, according to Taiwan-based supply chain ma...
After hitting bottom in the first quarter, notebook players and their upstream component suppliers are expected to see shipment growth of 10% sequentially in the second quarter as...
