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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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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,...
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Elan aims for 18-20% share of notebook touch controller IC market in 2011
Elan Microelectronics expects to ship four million touch controller ICs for notebook applications in August and total shipments of such ICs in 2011 to account for 18-20% of the global...
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Metal chassis suppliers expected to see strong sales in 2012
Taiwan-based metal chassis suppliers Catcher Technology and Foxconn Technology, benefiting from strong expectations of Intel's ultrabook concept, which is expected to be adopted in...
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Inventory of TV panels increasing due to ongoing weak demand
Weak demand in the LCD TV market has been putting great pressure on panel makers. According to industry sources, While the third quarter has been the traditional high season for LCD...
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Asustek may have difficulties achieving 2011 notebook shipment goal
Taiwan-based notebook vendor Asustek has achieved a strong performance in the tablet PC market, but may not be able to achieve its shipment goal of 20 million notebooks and netbooks...
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Notebook players to mass produce ultrabooks in September
First-tier notebook players including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell and Lenovo are all set to launch ultrabooks in the second half of 2011 with mass production...
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Appearance of Android 3.2 to further impact notebook and netbook demand
Google has recently revealed its Android 3.2 operating system with its downstream partners Motorola and Asustek Computer both to release plans at the last week of July for their users...
Monday 25 July 2011
Increasing back-to-school demand to boost PC and e-book reader sales
Sales of notebook, desktop and e-book readers, which are targeting education and document processing purposes, will have a chance to see a significant growth in the third quarter...