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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 February 2011
Inventec expected to have notebook shipments of 4 million units in 1Q11
Taiwan-based notebook maker Inventec is expected to ship about four million notebooks in the first quarter of 2011 with half of the volume enterprise notebooks from Hewlett-Packard...
Thursday 24 February 2011
HP unsatisfactory performance to impact Taiwan upstream supply chain
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced revenues of US$32.3 billion during the period from November of 2010 to January of 2011, lower than market watchers' expectations of US$32.9 billion,...
Thursday 24 February 2011
Notebook makers expect strong shipment growth in March as Intel fixes chipsets
Taiwan-based notebook makers are already assembling notebooks with fixed 6 series chipsets as Intel's progress in fixing its defective chipsets is ahead of schedule and most of the...
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Compal, Wistron may suffer lowest monthly shipments since 2009 in February
Compal Electronics is likely to ship only three million notebooks in February 2011, the lowest monthly level since June 2009, while fellow maker Wistron may also see its lowest monthly...
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipment growth to only reach 12% in 2011
Global notebook shipment growth will have difficulty in surpassing 15% on year and is expected to reach only 12% since buyers from the enterprise market are strongly fond of tablet...
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Late February panel quotes remain flat for notebook, monitor use, slightly fall for TV use, says DisplaySearch
International quotes for TFT-LCD panels for late February overall remain unchanged from previous quotes for use in LCD monitors and notebook PCs, but drop by US$1-3 for LCD TV panels,...
Tuesday 22 February 2011
HP to start selling WebOS 3.0-based TouchPad in April
First-tier notebook brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to start selling its WebOS 3.0-based tablet PC, TouchPad in April with shipments to start delivery by the end of March,...
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Ju Teng DSLR camera chassis shipments to double or triple on year in 2011
Digital camera chassis maker Ju Teng International Holdings is expected to see its DSLR camera chassis shipments to double or triple on year in 2011 and the company will also have...
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Retail channel hoping for Sandy Bridge-based MacBook Pro by end of February
Apple may launch an upgraded version of MacBook Pro notebooks before the end of February with the possibility of adopting Intel's Sandy Bridge processor, according to sources from...
Friday 18 February 2011
Intel begins shipping fixed B3 stepping 6-series chipsets to first-tier makers
Intel has begun shipping its fixed B3 stepping 6-series chipsets to first-tier notebook and motherboard makers and a number of brand-name notebook vendors are expected to unveil their...
Thursday 17 February 2011
Apple secures 60% of global touch panel capacity, causing tight supply
In order to achieve its internal goal of shipping 40 million iPad products in 2011, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among Apple's...
Thursday 17 February 2011
Compal to see notebook shipments reach 4-4.5 million units in March, says paper
Compal Electronics reportedly will ship 4-4.5 million notebooks in March, benefiting from Acer starting to ship its new Intel-based notebooks, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Thursday 17 February 2011
Entrance of Android tablet PCs will weaken dominance of iPad, says Acer chairman
As Android 3.0-based tablet PCs will start appearing in March and April, Acer chairman JT Wang pointed out that the entrance of the tablet PCs will inhibit Apple's dominance in the...
Thursday 17 February 2011
Acer, Asustek cutting into tier-4 to 6 cities in China
Acer and Asustek Computer have recently been aggressively cutting into China's tier-4 to tier-6 cities as both players are optimistic about these cities' potential in the future.
Thursday 17 February 2011
Acer signs contract with China-based Sunning to further cut into China market
Acer announced on February 16, that the company has signed contracts with China-based IT channel vendor Sunning Appliance for a two year, US$500 million worth sales agreement. Acer...