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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 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 OEM...
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 strategies...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Coretronic February consolidated revenues up 9% sequentially
Backlight unit (BLU) maker Coretronic has announced consolidated revenues of NT$6.19 billion (US$210.94 million) for February, increased by 9% sequentially.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Nvidia may see GPU market share impacted in first half 2011
Nvidia may see its GPU market share impacted in the first half of 2011 as the company lost GPU orders for Apple's MacBook Pro notebook to AMD, according to sources from notebook pl...
Monday 7 March 2011
Radiant February consolidated revenues up almost 30% sequentially
Backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics has posted consolidated revenues of NT$5.21 billion (US$177.25 million) for February, increasing 29.4% sequentially and 84.6% on...
Monday 7 March 2011
Acer new Timeline notebooks to hit market in April, say sources
Acer's third-generation Timeline Sandy Bridge-based ultra-thin notebooks are expected to hit the market in April, according to industry sources. The new Timeline lineup will be available...
Friday 4 March 2011
Monitors lead in panel price growth in March
LCD monitor panel prices are expected to start rising in March 2011, and the prices for LCD TV panels are expected to increase in April-May, while prices for notebook panels are expected...
Thursday 3 March 2011
Apple launches iPad 2
Apple has introduced the iPad 2, the next generation of its device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games,...
Thursday 3 March 2011
Hard drive shipments expected to see a double-digit growth sequentially in 2Q11
Hard drive shipments in the first quarter of 2011 are expected to see a sequential drop of 4-5% to only about 155-165 million units as notebook vendors face inventory pressure generated...
Thursday 3 March 2011
Acer takes less than 2 weeks to restock Intel Sandy Bridge notebooks
Acer took less than two weeks to re-produce notebooks with fixed Intel Sandy Bridge chipsets and ship them to retail channels worldwide; leading all other global brands, mainly due...