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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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Wednesday 7 August 2013
Taiwan market: Sales proportion of touchscreen notebooks may be below 20% in 4Q13
Touchscreen models' proportion in total notebook sales in the Taiwan market in the fourth quarter of 2013 is likely to be less than 20%, lower than the originally expected 30-40%,...
Monday 5 August 2013
Simplo expects more than 10% gross margins for 3Q13
Taiwan-based notebook battery maker Simplo Technology expects its third-quarter gross margin to remain at 11%, about the same as that of the first half of the year and the company...
Monday 5 August 2013
Compal biggest winner in Dell 2014 notebook orders
Dell has finished its notebook request for quotation (RFQ) for 2014 and will outsource 90% of its enterprise orders to Compal Electronics, while orders for consumer models are split...
Monday 5 August 2013
TCAS 2013 sees weak sales
The Taipei Computer Application Show (TCAS) 2013, which opened on August 1, had over 520,000 visitors in the first four days, a number similar to that during the same period in the...
Friday 2 August 2013
Inventec expects to ship 6 million notebooks from Chongqing factory
Inventec is expected to ship six million notebooks, including Hewlett-Packard (HP) models and Toshiba consumer models, from its factory in Chongqing, western China, in 2013, accounting...
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Jabil reportedly to enter notebook and smartphone manufacturing businesses
US-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Jabil Circuit reportedly plans to enter the notebook and smartphone manufacturing businesses, as the company recently started...
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Notebook vendors conservative about touchscreen notebook shipments in 3Q13
Notebook vendors increasingly are conservative about touchscreen notebook shipments in the third quarter of 2013, and in general are not expected to start shipments until September,...
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Touchscreen notebook penetration to fall below expectations
Touchscreen notebooks may not be able to achieve the market penetration expected as channel retailers have placed most of their focus on clearing existing inventories of Ivy-bridge-based...
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Many 2-in-1 models in development, but shipments likely to be small, say Taiwan makers
Under active promotion by Intel, vendors have been developing 2-in-1 notebook/tablet convertible models for launch in the second half of 2013 but are conservative about sales volumes...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
HP expected to regain status of largest notebook vendor, say Taiwan makers
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to see notebook shipments in the third quarter of 2013 increase 15-20% on quarter while Lenovo is expected to see a sequential drop of 7-9%, therefore...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Notebook shipments grow 0.4% in 2Q13, says WitsView
Notebook shipments attained 39.4 million in shipments during the second quarter of 2013, up 0.4% on quarter, while shipments of the top nine vendors in the market declined 0.7% on...
Monday 29 July 2013
Enterprise PC demand may benefit from the end of Windows XP support
As Microsoft is set to end its support for Windows XP in April, 2014, sources from the upstream supply chain believe the action will help trigger a PC replacement trend in the enterprise...
Friday 26 July 2013
Shipments of 15-inch notebooks decreasing, while 11-inch rise
Shipments of 15-inch notebooks are on the decline due to the stagnant market in Europe, while 11.6-inch models have been significantly increasing due to Microsoft offering large discounts...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Google announces Chromecast and second-generation Nexus 7
Google has launched its second-generation Nexus 7 and the Chromecast, a device that can be plugged into TVs, PCs, smartphones or tablets for watching online content.
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Taiwan market: HP, Toshiba to launch ultra-high-resolution notebooks
Hewlett-Packard (HP) will launch the Envy TouchSmart 14, a 14-inch touch-screen notebook with resolution of 3200 by 1800, in the Taiwan market in August at a recommended retail price...