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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 21 February 2012
Taiwan notebooks – 4Q 2011
Taiwan's notebook shipments, affected by the global economic turmoil and hard drive shortages, dropped 5.7% on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Notebook makers to see shipments recover in February
Notebook makers, after suffering from a weak performance in January, are expected to see an overall on-month shipment growth of 10% in February as hard disc drive (HDD) supply returns...
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Taiwan market: Acer prices new Cedar Trail netbook below NT$10,000
Notebook vendors including Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Samsung Electronics and Toshiba have all already started selling their latest Cedar Trail-based netbooks...
Friday 17 February 2012
Notebook vendors to offer transforming ultrabooks with touch screens
In order to match Windows 8's touch functions, notebook vendors plan to offer touch ultrabooks, but the addition of touch functions will result in 0.7-1.5cm increase in thickness...
Thursday 16 February 2012
Acer expects double ultrabook shipments in 2Q12, improving gross margin each quarter
Acer has announced results for 2011 with operating profit turning from losses to gains in the fourth quarter of 2011, while company chairman JT Wang pointed out that gross margin...
Thursday 16 February 2012
Intel to postpone mass shipments of Ivy Bridge processors
Intel recently notified its partners about plans to postpone mass shipments of its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. Despite that the company will still announce the new products and...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Ultrabook prices to drop 20-30% in early March to April
Prices of the existing ultrabooks are expected to see a 20-30% drop in early March to April to help digesting notebook vendors' inventories as Intel is set to announce its next-generation...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Clevo expected to see bigger profits in 2012
Taiwan-based notebook and retail channel player Clevo, after achieving profit of more than NT$1 billion (US$33.89 million) in 2011 from its retail IT mall business in China, is aiming...
Monday 13 February 2012
Compal ships 2.1 million notebooks in January, says paper
Compal Electronics shipped 2.1 million notebooks in January, the lowest monthly level since December 2008, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News (
Thursday 9 February 2012
Quanta, Wistron see on-month drop in January revenues
Quanta Computer and Wistron have announced their January results with both suffering on-month drops in terms of revenues and notebook shipments.
Thursday 9 February 2012
Pegatron lands notebook orders from HP
Pegatron Technology has recently landed notebook orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP). With its existing orders from Toshiba and Acer for 2012, the company's shipments are expected to...
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Inventec January revenues down
Notebook ODM Inventec had revenues of NT$27.378 billion (US$926 million) for January decreasing 6.53% on month and 0.90% on year, according to the company. Inventec shipped 1.45-1.5...
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Intel and AMD low-power processors not price competitive with ARM, say notebook makers
While Intel and AMD have been making efforts to develop low power processors for use in smartphones and tablet PCs, they cannot compete with solutions from ARM in terms of price,...
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Catcher announces on-year growth in January revenues
Catcher Technology announced consolidated revenues of NT$2.82 billion (US$95.19 million) for January, down 13.3% on month, but up 16.7% on year; however, the company's non-consolidated...
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Vendors dropping ultrabook prices in preparation of second-generation models
As ultrabooks from brand vendors such as Acer, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are all recently seeing price drops in the North America, sources from retail channel believe that the...