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The PC, notebook and server supply chains are being disrupted by the outbreak
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Friday 27 March 2020
Lenovo restarts Wuhan plant production
Lenovo will resume about 60% of production at its Wuhan, China plant by the end of March, with the facility set to return to full production by mid April following weeks of suspension...
Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan IC design houses land short lead-time orders for notebooks
Taiwan-based IC design houses have recently landed short lead-time orders for applications for commercial and educational notebooks and tablets, according to industry sources.
Thursday 26 March 2020
Wistron expects sales growth in 2020
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Wistron chairman Simon Lin still expects the company to enjoy another year of revenue growth in 2020.
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Apple accelerating production relocation outside China, say sources
Apple is reportedly accelerating plans to diversify its manufacturing risks by removing more of its production out of China, with sources from the supply chain claiming that the vendor...
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Inventec upbeat about 2Q20
Inventec expects to post substantial revenue growth sequentially in the second quarter, thanks to a pull-in of orders for notebooks and servers.
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Server ODMs expect shipments to pick up in 2Q20
ODMs expect shipments for servers to pick up in the second quarter, and continue to grow steadily despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to sources from the upstream supply ch...
Monday 23 March 2020
Taiwan IC distributors see growing demand for 5G and datacenter applications despite pandemic
Taiwan-based IC distributors are seeing stable demand for chips used in cloud/edge computing, large datacenters, 5G base stations and servers, as consumers turn to services or entertainments...
Monday 23 March 2020
AcBel reports profit for 2019
Power supply maker AcBel Polytech has reported net profit of NT$1.485 billion (US$48.92 million) and net EPS of NT$2.87 for 2019.
Friday 20 March 2020
Server chassis maker Chenbro scales up capacity in Taiwan
Server chassis supplier Chenbro has disclosed plans to scale up production capacity at its factory site in Taiwan to mitigate the risk of production concentration in the wake of the...
Thursday 19 March 2020
Global PC sales to plunge 30% in 1H20
Global PC sales are set to fall over 30% on year in the first half of 2020, due to poor sales in China, Europe and the US in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, according to industry...
Wednesday 18 March 2020
Components makers carefully coping with rush orders
Components makers have received large volumes of rush orders as production resumption in China accelerates, but they are cautious about handling such orders, wary of the possibility...
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Top-5 notebook vendors see shipments plunge in February, says Digitimes Research
Global top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments nosedive nearly 40% on month and 38% on year in February as the notebook supply chain, which has over 90% of poduction capacity...
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Supply chains fast returning to normal in China
Electronics supply chain makers with operations in China are accelerating production resumption as the coronavirus epidemic there eases, and upstream components suppliers are fulfilling...
Monday 16 March 2020
Enterprise notebook sales to stay robust due to increasing work-from-home demand
Demand for notebooks from the enterprise market has begun rising as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across Europe and North America, prompting companies there to ask employees to...
Monday 16 March 2020
Relocating capacity out of China would be mammoth task for Foxconn
The US-China trade war sent many firms rethinking their global capacity deployments. And the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has disrupted the supply chain in China has given them...