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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 11 August 2011
Acer unlikely to increase notebook orders until September, says upstream supply chain
Acer is unlikely to increase its notebook orders to upstream partners until September and the company is expected to continue reducing its orders in August, according to sources from...
Thursday 11 August 2011
Compal sees drop in July revenues and notebook shipments
Compal Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$55.95 billion (US$1.93 billion) for July, down 6% on month, with combined consolidated revenues from January to July also...
Tuesday 9 August 2011
Inventec, Mitac Tech announce July results
Taiwan-based notebook maker Inventec has announced revenues of NT$33.1 billion (US$1.14 billion) for July with combined consolidated revenues from January to July reached NT$193.04...
Tuesday 9 August 2011
Quanta, Wistron see revenue, notebook shipments drop in July
Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer and Wistron both saw their revenues and notebook shipments drop on month in July due to their downstream clients reducing orders for July...
Tuesday 9 August 2011
Asustek sees strong revenue growth in July
Taiwan-based notebook vendor Asustek Computer has announced non-consolidated revenues of NT$31.86 billion (US$1.1 billion) for July, up 13% on month and 38% on year, representing a...
Friday 5 August 2011
Rugged notebook maker Crete looks to double-digit growth in 3Q11 revenues
Rugged notebook maker Crete System has posted revenues of NT$228 million (US$7.88 million) for July, up 11% sequentially and 31% on year. The company is expected to see its revenues...
Friday 5 August 2011
Dynapack July revenues hit record high; Catcher sees growth
Notebook battery maker Dynapack International Technology saw its consolidated revenues increase 10.7% on month and 34.8% on year to a record high of NT$1.99 billion (US$68.77 million)...
Friday 5 August 2011
Ultrabooks and tablet PCs are short-term fads, says Acer founder
Acer founder Stan Shih has commented that the fads for ultrabooks and tablet PCs are both short-term phenomena and urged companies in the notebook supply chain to come out with more...
Friday 5 August 2011
Intel reportedly releasing reference BOM for ultrabooks
Intel has reportedly revealed a reference BOM (bill of materials) without assembly costs for 21mm ultrabooks at US$475-650 and 18mm models at US$493-710, according to sources at notebook...
Thursday 4 August 2011
Lack of metal chassis capacity pushing ultrabook vendors to adopt fiberglass
Intel and notebook brand vendors have recently been aggressively searching for new chassis materials as capacity for magnesium-aluminum chassis, which is the most popular choice for...
Thursday 4 August 2011
Asustek reducing Eee PC orders
Asustek Computer, seeing better-than-expected Eee Pad Transformer tablet PC sales and dropping Eee PC demand, is gradually reducing its Eee PC orders, according to sources from the...
Wednesday 3 August 2011
LCD monitor sales in Taiwan likely to decrease 10% in 2011
The high penetration rate of LCD monitors and the increasing popularity of low-priced notebooks and tablet PCs are likely to cause annual sales of LCD monitors in Taiwan to decrease...
Thursday 28 July 2011
MSI introduces GE620DX gaming notebook
Taiwan-based notebook player Micro-Star International (MSI) has introduced its new GE620DX gaming notebook, featuring Intel's Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor (2GHz) and Nvidia's...
Thursday 28 July 2011
Compal reportedly lands new notebook orders from Asustek for 2012
Compal Electronics has reportedly landed new notebook orders from Asustek Computer for 2012, doubling its Asustek orders from two million units in 2011 to four million units in 2012,...
Thursday 28 July 2011
Quanta, Wistron expected to strongly benefit from cloud computing in 2012
Quanta Computer and Wistron are expected to see strong sales growth in their cloud computing-related businesses in 2012 with Quanta's revenues from server business to more than double,...