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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 11 March 2011
Acer February revenues down 16% on-month
Acer has reported non-consolidated revenues of NT$28.05 billion (US$951 million) for February 2011, down 15.9% sequentially and hitting the lowest monthly level since July 2010.
Friday 11 March 2011
Quanta to set up touch panel joint venture with 3M
Quanta Computer has announced plans to set up a joint venture with US-based 3M in Singapore for developing projected capacitive touch technology in order to gain profits from the...
Friday 11 March 2011
Compal notebook shipments fall 18% in February
Compal Electronics has announced that notebook shipments for February 2011 declined 18% sequentially to 2.7 million units, which came below market watcher estimates of 2.9-3 million...
Thursday 10 March 2011
HannStar Board to hike PCB prices starting April, says paper
Taiwan-based PCB manufacturer HannStar Board plans to raise its prices by 8-12% starting April 2011, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) cited company COO Yeh...
Thursday 10 March 2011
HP reportedly considers selling PC business, upstream players say no
The largest global notebook brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is reportedly considering selling its PC business with Korea-based Samsung Electronics the most likely buyer, according...
Thursday 10 March 2011
Taiwan notebook makers to see shipment growth in March
Despite seeing their shipments drop significantly in February, Taiwan-based notebook makers including Compal Electronics, Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec are all expected to...
Thursday 10 March 2011
Motherboard players see revenue drop in February
Taiwan-based motherboard players including Asustek Computer, Pegatron Technology, Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) have all reported drop in February revenues due...
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Asustek and Gigabyte shipping new Sandy Bridge products
Asustek Computer has recently started selling its latest PC products with Sandy Bridge chipsets in retail channels, and Gigabyte Technology is also set to release its Sandy Bridge...
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Taiwan market: HP launches Sandy Bridge notebooks
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched several new Intel Sandy Bridge-based notebooks in Taiwan, and as the company is starting to mass ship the notebook models in March, its upstream...
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Wistron February notebook shipments hit 2-year low
Wistron shipped 1.75 million notebooks in February 2011, the lowest monthly level since February 2009, according to the company.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Quanta raises notebook manufacturing quotes for 1Q11, says paper
Notebook maker Quanta Computer has already reached an agreement with some of its clients to raise the manufacturing quotes for the first quarter of 2011, according to a Chinese-language...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Polytronics shipping components for notebook batteries
Protective component maker Polytronics Technology (PTTC) saw February consolidated revenues decline by 16.2% sequentially to NT$98 million (US$3.34 million), but the company indicated...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Inventec sees drop in February revenues
Taiwan-based notebook maker Inventec has announced revenues of NT$23 billion (US$783.78 million) for February, down 16% on month and 17.7% on year due to its clients were conservative...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Notebook players may postpone tablet PC launch schedule because of iPad 2
Facing strong competition from Apple's iPad 2, notebook brand vendors pointed out that iPad 2's low price of US$499 is leaving tablet PC models with relatively higher prices no room...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Notebook brands to compete against Apple with tablet PC-featured netbook
Global notebook brand vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI), facing strong competition from Apple's iPad, are changing...