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Taiwan notebook ODMs
Taiwan notebook Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) account for more than 90% of global notebook production and Digitimes is there to provide daily updates on shipments, supplier contracts and financial data on the more than 10 Taiwan makers involved in notebook manufacturing.
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Thursday 22 August 2013
Pegatron expects sequential drops in 3Q13 notebook, desktop, motherboard shipments
Taiwan-based ODM Pegatron expects a 5-10% sequential decrease in its third-quarter 2013 notebook shipments and a 10-15% decline for desktops and motherboards, according to the comp...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
HP surpasses Lenovo in 10-month notebook shipments in 2013
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to return as the largest notebook brand vendor worldwide with shipments for the first 10 months of 2013 reaching 23.5 million units, higher than Lenovo's...
Monday 19 August 2013
Notebook players finding gaming PC business still a bright spot in dismal PC market
Notebook players such as second-tier ODMs Clevo and Shuttle, as well as brand vendors Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), are seeing their gaming notebook businesses...
Monday 19 August 2013
Notebook ODMs seeking measures to stay competitive in 2014
Notebook ODMs are taking measures to handle the challenges they may face in 2014. In addition to seeking new business opportunities such as wearable devices and cloud computing datacenters,...
Monday 19 August 2013
Lenovo to produce 60% of its notebooks in-house in 2014
Lenovo reportedly will produce 60% of its notebooks in-house in 2014, while outsourcing to Compal Electronics will drop to only 30% of total shipments from the previous 50%, and Wistron's...
Monday 19 August 2013
Digitimes Research: China tablet and notebook touch panel shipments to register pronounced growth in 3Q13
While shipments of touch panels for handset applications will continue to dominate the touch panel industry in China in the second half of 2013, the ratio of tablet touch panels will...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Asustek to enter the Chromebook market in 4Q13
Asustek Computer plans to enter the Chromebook market as soon as the fourth quarter, hoping to find new demand from the IT market to boost its notebook shipments, according to sources...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Intel introduces Android-based education tablet reference design
Intel has introduced an education-focused tablet reference design, featuring an Intel Atom processor and the Android operating system. The Intel Education tablet is specifically for...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Digitimes Research: Notebook vendors suffer over 20% on-month shipment drops in July
The disappearance of the back-to-school demand in 2012 has extended into 2013 as first-tier notebook brand vendors and ODMs suffered on-month drops of 23% and 17%, respectively, in...
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Inventec aims to reduce notebook revenue proportion to 55-60% in 2014
Inventec, in view of shrinking demand and profitability for notebooks, aims to decrease the revenue proportion for notebooks from about 60% currently to 55-60%, while raising the...
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Notebook ODMs see rising shipments in August
Notebook ODMs' shipments have been rising in August and shipments are expected to peak in September. Demand may remain significant in October, but overall growth in the second half...
Monday 12 August 2013
Lenovo-Compal joint venture to outsource front-end manufacturing to China OEMs
Lenovo and Compal Electronics' joint venture in China has recently started outsourcing its front-end manufacturing to China-based notebook OEMs, aiming to quickly raise its capacity,...
Monday 12 August 2013
Samsung, Apple reportedly developing 12-inch and above tablets
Samsung is reportedly developing tablets with a 12-inch or larger display echoing rumors that Apple reportedly has similar plans. Sources from the upstream supply chain believe the...
Friday 9 August 2013
Wistron July notebook shipments lowest in 2013
Taiwan-based ODM Wistron shipped 1.65 million notebooks in July, the lowest monthly level so far in 2013, according to the company.
Thursday 8 August 2013
Samsung to end notebook production by Compal, says paper
Samsung Electronics will stop outsourcing its notebook production to Taiwan-based Compal Electronics in September 2013, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily...