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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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Wednesday 13 July 2011
HP aims to ship 12 million notebook in 3Q11, say sources
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reportedly demanded its Taiwan-based suppliers be ready to ship 12 million notebooks in the third quarter of 2011, according to industry sources. If realized,...
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Toshiba adopts AUO-developed naked-eye 3D panels for notebook
Toshiba has adopted 15.6-inch lenticular lens-based panels developed by Taiwan-based AU Optronics (AUO) for its naked-eye 2D/3D switchable notebook model to be launched in August...
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Acer weak performance in June affecting Compal shipments
Acer announced non-consolidated revenues of NT$31.94 billion (US$1.11 billion) for June, down 10.63% on month and 28.09% on year, and the company's weak performance also affected...
Monday 11 July 2011
Digitimes Insight: Taiwan notebook shipments increase in 2Q11 thanks to Classmate PC
Taiwan-based notebook makers' combined shipments in the second quarter of 2011 reached 44.49 million units with a sequential increase of 8.5%, better than 5.6% growth of the same...
Monday 11 July 2011
Quanta, Wistron notebook shipments grow
Quanta Computer saw notebook shipments increase 6.38% sequentially to five million units in June, while Wistron's notebook shipments grew 14.29% to 2.8 million, according to the co...
Friday 8 July 2011
Acer continues to work on inventory adjustment
Acer has continued to work on adjusting its inventory recently and delayed some shipments for the third quarter, according to sources at upstream component suppliers. Brand notebook...
Friday 8 July 2011
Inventec posts strong sequential revenue gains in June
Inventec has posted revenues of NT$32.17 billion (US$1.12 billion) for June, up 22.3% sequentially but down 7.4% on year. For the first six months of 2011, revenues totaled NT$159.94...
Thursday 7 July 2011
Quanta to establish chassis manufacturing subsidiary in China
Quanta Computer has announced plans to invest US$15 million to set up a subsidiary in Chongqing, China for manufacturing chassis and cooling modules.
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Unity Opto and Bright LED June revenues down 30% on-year
LED packaging houses Unity Opto and Bright LED both reported approximately 30% on-year decreases in June revenues. According to industry sources, demand in the TV market has been...
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Taiwan notebook ODMs see slight sequential shipment growth in 2Q11
Taiwan-based notebook makers, facing an impact from Japan's earthquake, competition from tablet vendors and the fact brand vendor significantly cleared inventory, saw their notebook...
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Acer, Asustek turn marketing focus to China market in 2H11
Acer's notebook inventory clearance bringing a drop to mid-range and entry-level notebook models' average selling price in Europe by 40-50 euro, causing the Europe PC market to fall...
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Pegatron receives orders for 15 million iPhone 5s from Apple
Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is estimated to have landed orders for 15 million iPhone 5s (iPhone 4S) from Apple and is set to start shipping in September of 2011,...
Monday 4 July 2011
Notebook vendors take back chassis purchasing rights from ODMs
Global first-tier notebook vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Dell and Asustek Computer have all recently retrieved back their purchasing rights for notebook chassis from their notebook...
Thursday 30 June 2011
Wistron to become a major notebook partner of HP in 2012, says paper
Taiwan-based notebook maker Wistron is expected to return as a major notebook partner of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2012 as Wistron will start receiving short-term orders, which were...
Thursday 30 June 2011
Asustek optimistic about performance in China
Asustek Computer, at a product launch conference in China, pointed out that notebook demand in the China market was weak in the second quarter, but as the IT market will enter the...