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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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Tuesday 8 May 2012
AMD readies Trinity APU in May and preparing more CPUs for later
AMD is set to launch its latest A series APUs codenamed Trinity in May and will initially only release models for notebooks with models for desktops to wait until August, while the...
Thursday 3 May 2012
Chip demand for LCD TVs, monitors picking up
Demand for semiconductors used in LCD TVs and monitors has started picking up in May while notebook firms have stepped up their pace of orders, according to sources at IC design ho...
Thursday 3 May 2012
Toshiba and Panasonic reportedly may phase out from notebook fan market
Japan-based Toshiba and Panasonic are reportedly starting to lose their interest in notebook fan production and may gradually phase out from the industry, while Japan-based Nidec...
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Notebook ODMs aggressively expanding chassis capacity for ultrabooks
Notebook ODMs, seeing that supply of metal chassis has been tight, are aggressively pushing chassis companies they are invested in to expand capacity, and are also adopting chassis...
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Compal expects 14.8% sequential growth in 2Q12 notebook shipments
Compal Electronics expects its notebook shipments in second-quarter 2012 to increase 14.8% on quarter to 9.3 million units, company president Ray Chen told an investor conference...
Monday 30 April 2012
PC vendors reportedly facing challenges from Windows 8
Notebook brand vendors originally expected ultrabooks and Windows 8 to help start a new wave of PC replacement in the second half of 2012, but are reportedly facing great pressure...
Monday 30 April 2012
Quanta expects 2Q12 notebook shipments to grow 5-10% sequentially
Quanta Computer expects its notebook shipments in the second quarter of 2012 to increase 5-10% on quarter, the company said at an April 27 investors conference.
Thursday 26 April 2012
Notebook vendors to push ultra-like notebook models
The high prices of second-generation ultrabooks which are set to appear in early June of around US$1,000 are unlikely to help them win-over consumers; therefore, notebook vendors...
Thursday 26 April 2012
MSI launches Ivy Bridge-based gaming notebook
Micro-Star International (MSI) has shifted its focus from consumer notebooks to gaming models, and on April 24 launched a new model equipped with Ivy Bridge Core i7-3610M processor...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
PC vendors launch products with new Ivy Bridge processors
PC brand vendors have been aggressively unveiling their latest notebook products featuring Intel's third-generation Ivy Bridge-based Core processors, including Hewlett-Packard's (HP's)...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Newmax aggressively striving for notebook camera orders
Taiwan-based optical lens maker Newmax Technology is aggressive trying to land high quality optical lens orders from ultrabook and notebook players, according to sources from upstream...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Strong short-term orders may appear for component makers in 2Q12 or 3Q12
Due to their order visibility greatly shrinking from half a year originally to about 2-3 months after Japan's earthquake in March 2011, upstream component makers believe if demand...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Notebook players ready to host investor meetings
Notebook players including Inventec, Acer, Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Asustek Computer are all set to host their investor meeting before the end of April.
Tuesday 24 April 2012
HP, Dell and Asustek said to plan launch of 15-inch ultrabooks without an ODD
As Apple reportedly may remove the design of the internal optical disc drive (ODD) for its new MacBook Pro and make it an optional pick, sources from supply chain pointed out that...
Friday 20 April 2012
Global notebook shipments to reach 55 million units in 2Q12, says Digitimes Research
A total of 55 million notebooks will be shipped globally during the second quarter of 2012, increasing 17.6% on quarter and 9.5% on year, according to a forecast by Digitimes Resea...