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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 9 August 2012
Wistron, Inventec suffer on-month revenue drop in July
Wistron has announced consolidated revenues of NT$48.84 billion (US$1.63 billion), down 16.32% on month and 5.28% on year, with combined consolidated revenues for the first seven...
Thursday 9 August 2012
Notebook ODMs shipments may stay weak in August
Taiwan notebook ODMs may see their shipments in August stay flat on month and will not have a chance to recover until September, according to sources from notebook makers.
Monday 6 August 2012
Notebook ODMs to push for double-digit percentage growth in 3Q12
After estimating on-month drops in their July shipments, notebook ODMs are expected to start seeing their shipments in August rise on month with volumes to grow even higher in September...
Thursday 2 August 2012
HP and Dell to launch Windows RT tablet PCs at the end of October
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell are both set to launch Windows RT-based tablet PCs after the release of the new operating system. HP will adopt chip solutions from Texas Instruments...
Tuesday 31 July 2012
Quanta chairman reportedly may invest in VMware
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam has recently sold shares totaling a 1.67% stake in Quanta through global depositary receipts (GDR) for a price of US$150 million, accounting for...
Friday 27 July 2012
2H 2012 notebook market trends and shipment forecast
Global economic turmoil has seriously impacted growth in the PC market and it will remain weak (2Q-3Q) leading up to the launch of Windows 8, whose initial benefit will mainly be...
Thursday 26 July 2012
Digitimes Research: Notebook ODMs to see mixed shipment performance in 2H12
Although global notebook shipments in the second half of 2012 are only estimated to grow 12% compared to the first, several notebooks ODMs are expected to see their shipment growth...
Thursday 26 July 2012
Compal lands over 30% of Acer notebook orders for 2013
Compal Electronics, after acquiring 70% of Dell's 2013 notebook orders, has also recently received 36% of Acer's total notebook orders for 2013 with an estimated volume of about 10.8...
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Notebook battery makers expect growth in 3Q12 revenues
Notebook battery makers, despite the fact that the notebook supply chain is seeing a weak performance, expect their revenues in the third quarter to have chance to achieve double-digit...
Monday 23 July 2012
Chongqing government turning strict over subsidy qualifications
Subsidies that the government of Chongqing, China has promised to the notebook supply chain to attract them to invest in the city, are reportedly seeing qualifications become more...
Monday 23 July 2012
HDDs still dominance in notebook market, IHS says
Despite sluggish sales, conventional notebooks equipped with hard disk drives (HDD) as their main storage medium are unlikely to have their market share threatened in the near term...
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Quanta, Compal, Wistron expected to see sequential drops in July notebook shipments
Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron are expected to see notebook shipments in July decrease on month by 10%-15%, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Quanta lands HP 2013 orders for 18 million notebooks, says newspaper
Taiwan-based Quanta Computer has obtained ODM orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for 18 million notebooks to be shipped in 2013, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic...
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Consumer IC supplier Sonix sees weak 3Q12 sales
IC design house Sonix Technology has expressed caution about its sales performance during the third quarter of 2012, due to a slowing in IC orders for notebook webcams and consumer...
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Notebook brand vendors delay orders from July to late August
Notebook brand vendors, seeing uncertainties in the US and Europe, have decided to postpone some of their July orders to late August in order to gain more time and flexibility to...