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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 15 November 2012
Digitimes Research: Asustek to compete with Acer for top-3 worldwide notebook vendor spot in 2013
Weak Global notebook demand is expected to reshuffle the top-10 notebook brand rankings in 2013, with Lenovo expected to successfully take over Hewlett-Packard's (HP) leading position...
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Intel Thunderbolt suffers low penetration in the PC market
Intel's Thunderbolt technology is facing difficulty penetrating the PC market. Currently only about 10% of notebooks and motherboards adopt the technology due to high costs, according...
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Taiwan notebooks – 3Q 2012
Taiwan notebook shipments decreased 5% sequentially and 9.3% on year to reach 42.73 million units in the third quarter of 2012.
Monday 12 November 2012
Microsoft Surface RT may only achieve 60% of forecasted sales
Microsoft's Surface RT tablet may see sales of only 60% of the company's forecast by the end of 2012 and the device is also expected to have difficulty achieving a good performance...
Monday 12 November 2012
Acer announces over 30% on-month drop in October revenues
Acer has announced revenues of NT$25.53 billion (US$880.8 million) for October, down 32.13% on month, with combined revenues for the first ten months of 2012 reaching NT$306.1 billion,...
Monday 12 November 2012
Notebook brands turn conservative about accumulating orders to inland plants
While notebook ODMs become aggressive about building up their production capacities at plants in inland China to save costs, notebook vendors taken a more conservative stance about...
Monday 12 November 2012
Notebook ODMs post mixed sequential growth in October revenues
Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec, the largest Taiwan-based notebook ODMs, saw revenues for October increase 18.86%, decrease 6.71%, slip 5.12% and rise 6.84%...
Friday 9 November 2012
Mainstream and value PCs rule over high-end performance models, says IHS
Consumers continue to favor lower-end desktops and notebooks over high-performance models in 2012 and beyond, with top-end systems accounting for only 6% of the market in 2012, according...
Friday 9 November 2012
MSI to launch Windows 8 notebooks in mid-November
Micro-Star International (MSI) will launch several Windows 8 touch-controlled notebooks in North America, Taiwan and Southeast Asia in mid-November, according to the company, adding...
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Notebook ODMs facing uncertainty as brand vendors take over R&D
Acer plans to release a new notebook that is designed and developed in-house, creating an alert among notebook ODMs that brand vendors are trying to become more involved in R&D...
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Notebook brands to mainly promote Windows 7 notebooks in 4Q12
Although Microsoft has already released Windows 8, notebook brand vendors are still promoting Windows 7-based models in the fourth quarter in order to digest remaining inventories...
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Dell warns Taiwan notebook ODMs against producing white-box servers
As Taiwan-based notebook ODMs such as Quanta Computer and Wistron have stepped into producing white-box servers targeting the Internet data centers of clients such as Google and Facebook,...
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Commentary: Notebook ODMs face uncertainties in tablet market
The rise of tablets and smartphones, plus the economic downturn in the US and Europe, have been causing PC brands such as HP, Dell and Acer to report unsatisfactory sales results...
Friday 2 November 2012
GIGABYTE launches variety of innovative Windows 8 products
GIGABYTE, a rising brand in the notebook industry, launched an array of notebooks and a tablet with fabulous functions and powerful specifications. Each GIGABYTE model is highlighted...
Thursday 1 November 2012
Acer Greater China president expects 10% growth in 2013 notebook shipments
President of Acer Greater China Scott Lin, commenting on the touchscreen and convertible notebook trends brought on by Windows 8, pointed out that he believes these trends can resurrect...