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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 20 July 2011
Gloomy economy takes toll on LCD panel market, says WitsView
Total shipments of large-size LCD panels in June 2011 reached 59.53 million units with on-month regression of 2.8% and on-year growth of 8%, according to WitsView.
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Himax Imaging lands more CMOS image sensor orders from notebook sector
Himax Imaging, a subsidiary of Himax Technologies, has continued to ramp up its shipments of CMOS image sensors as the company has managed to win more orders from the notebook supply...
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Taiwan market: Lenovo launches Gorilla-based enterprise notebook
China-based PC vendor Lenovo has announced a new ultra-thin enterprise notebook – ThinkPad X1, adopting Corning's Gorilla reinforced glass with plastic chassis, in Taiwan.
Tuesday 19 July 2011
ARM to have big slice of notebook market in 2015, says IHS
After more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture - Intel's X86 - the PC microprocessor (MPU) market finally is set for some real competition with shipments of ARM...
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Acer, HP undergoing management reshuffle
Acer, on July 18, announced it has recruited Dave Chan, former Hewlett-Packard (HP) China vice president, as general manager of its Touch Business Group in China. Also, while company...
Friday 15 July 2011
Worldwide PC shipments increase 2.3% in 2Q11, says Gartner
Worldwide PC shipments surpassed 85.2 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 2.3% increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. These...
Thursday 14 July 2011
Compal acquires Toshiba TV plant in Mexico
Compal Electronics has announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed an agreement to acquire Toshiba's TV assembly subsidiary Toshiba Electromex in Mexico with the transaction...
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 at...
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 its...
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 quarter...
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.