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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 24 March 2011
Taiwan market: Fujitsu launches new Sandy Bridge notebooks
Japan-based notebook vendor Fujitsu has launched several new Intel Sandy Bridge-based notebooks including 15.6-inch LifeBook AH531 and LH531, 17.3-inch LifeBook NH751 in Taiwan; although...
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Quake impacts memory supply, spot price on the rise
Since Japan is second to South Korea in importance to the global memory industry, spot price for DRAM and NAND flash products both rose on the first trading day after the March 11...
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Thinking wins thermo-sensitive resistor orders from US tablet PC vendors
Protective component maker Thinking Electronic Industrial has received thermo-sensitive resistor orders for US-based tablet PC vendors, according to the company.
Wednesday 23 March 2011
March shipments of notebook expected to grow 40-50% sequentially, say Taiwan makers
Since vendors including Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Lenovo and Asustek Computer are competing for ODM capacity, notebook ODMs including Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Notebook panel prices remain unchanged
With enough inventory in stock, prices for 13.1- to 15.6-inch notebook panels are expected to remain the same, despite strong orders from brand vendors, and will not change before...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Lenovo places strong notebook orders for China Labor Day holidays
China-based notebook brand vendor Lenovo has placed strong notebook orders to its Taiwan OEM partners in the second quarter mainly for China's Labor Day holidays in May and the company...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Players to announce Android 3.0 tablet PCs in near future; concerns for OS support remain
Taiwan-based notebook brand vendor Asustek Computer is set to announce its Android 3.0-based 10.1-inch tablet PC on March 25 with Acer, Samsung Electronics and High Tech Computer (HTC)...
Monday 21 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake impacts three major fab-tool suppliers
Three major Japan-based suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment have suspended operations at several of their plants in the earthquake-ravaged areas with no timeframe for...
Monday 21 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake to affect HDD industry
The global hard disk drive (HDD) industry, already facing challenges from solid state drives (SSDs), cloud computing and limitation of vertical read-write technologies, is expected...
Friday 18 March 2011
Mag.Layers to expand power choke capacity in 2011
Passive component maker Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics has announced plans to expand capacity for both assembly- and molded-type power chokes in 2011, as it acknowledges that demand...
Friday 18 March 2011
Taiwan market: Sony launches new notebooks, aims at 10% market share
Sony has launched a number of new models in its S-, C- and F-series of notebooks and other L-series all-in-one (AIO) PCs in the Taiwan market, aiming to take up a 10% share of the...
Friday 18 March 2011
Acer remains firm for 3% sequential growth in revenues and shipments in 1Q11
Acer has reiterated during an investment forum hosted by Merrill Lynch that its consolidated revenues and shipments will grow by 3% sequentially in first-quarter 2011 despite speculation...
Thursday 17 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: PC component supply unaffected by quake, but automotive electronics may take hit
The PC component supply chain has been little affected by the earthquake-tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, as component makers have moved most of their production to China along...
Thursday 17 March 2011
Asustek to launch US$200-250 netbook in June
Asustek Computer is set to launch a new netbook priced at US$200-250 in June in cooperation with Intel, and hopes to achieve its goal of shipping six million netbooks in 2011, according...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake raises concern about notebook battery supply
In the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, possible shortages of notebook-use lithium batteries are a concern for the PC sector although global demand for...