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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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Monday 21 January 2013
Cooling module makers to benefit from smartphone and tablet orders in 2013
Cooling module makers, which used to mainly focus on supplying notebook products, are expected to benefit from orders from smartphone and tablet products in the second quarter of...
Monday 21 January 2013
Joint venture between Lenovo, Compal to produce 12-13 million notebooks in 2013
Lenovo and Compal Electronics' notebook production joint venture in China will manufacture 12-13 million notebooks in 2013, according to Compal president Ray Chen. The amount is expected...
Monday 21 January 2013
HannStar Board to lower notebook PCB sales in 2013
HannStar Board, the world's largest maker of notebook PCBs, aims to lower the ratio of notebook PCBs to 55-59% of its total sales in 2013 compared to 59% in the previous year amid...
Thursday 17 January 2013
Notebook PCB makers concerned about Dell buyout talks
Notebook-use PCB makers are paying attention to the outcome of buyout talks reportedly being held between Dell and private-equity firms as the future development of the world's third-largest...
Thursday 17 January 2013
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to see decreased 1Q13 notebook shipments
Taiwan-based ODMs will ship 38.743 million notebooks in first-quarter 2013, decreasing 11.3% sequentially and 8.7% on year, with their global market share reaching 89.2%, according...
Wednesday 16 January 2013
HP, Lenovo expected to see 1Q13 notebook shipments fall 20% sequentially
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Lenovo are expected to see their notebook shipments drop about 20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2013, higher than an average 10% decline anticipated...
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Clevo, Shuttle expect significant growth in 2013 white-box notebook shipments
Taiwan-based ODMs Clevo and Shuttle have scored points in tapping white-box notebook markets in some countries and expect shipments to increase from 1.8-1.9 million units in 2012...
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Tablet shipments expected to surpass notebooks in 2013, says DisplaySearch
Tablet shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, exceeding notebook shipments at 207 million, according to research firm DisplaySearch. In a market...
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 4Q12 notebook ODM shipments up on quarter, down on year
Taiwan-based ODMs shipped 43.69 million notebooks in fourth-quarter 2012, increasing 2.5% sequentially but decreasing 3.0% on year, with their global market share reaching 90.1%,...
Friday 11 January 2013
Lenovo likely to cancel IdeaPad brand due to internal adjustments
As Lenovo will adjust its organization into two brand-based sub-groups, Lenovo and Think, in April 2013, sources from the upstream supply chain have revealed that the company plans...
Wednesday 9 January 2013
Casetek sees monthly shipments of 1 million iPad mini chassis at the end of 2012
Taiwan-based chassis maker Casetek Holdings, a subsidiary of Pegatron Technology, is expected to have shipped one million and 1.5 million iPad mini chassis in November and December...
Thursday 3 January 2013
Lenovo plans to hike in-house notebook production ratio to 100% in 3-5 years, say Taiwan makers
Lenovo plans to increase the proportion of total notebooks produced in-house to 100% in three to five years, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers
Wednesday 2 January 2013
IC demand from notebook sector to remain weak in 1H13
Demand for chips from the notebook segment will remain weak in the first half of 2013 as the increasing popularity of tablets will further limit notebook sales in the year, according...
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Ambient light, proximity sensors to have lower penetration rates in notebook/tablet segment
The penetration rates of ambient light and proximity sensors in the notebook and tablet sectors will be lower than expected in the first half of 2013 due to cost considerations at...
Wednesday 2 January 2013
ODMs reportedly to receive storage product orders from Facebook
Facebook reportedly plans to outsource new storage product orders to Taiwan-based ODMs with both Quanta Computer and Wistron having a chance to land the orders, according to sources...