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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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Tuesday 1 March 2011
Notebook component suppliers receiving short lead-time orders
Taiwan-based notebook component makers have received some short lead-time orders recently as brand-name notebook vendors, notably Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer, have begun to take...
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Acer and Asustek vigilant over Samsung aggressive notebook shipment goal
Taiwan-based notebook vendors Acer and Asustek Computer will keep a close watch on the move of Samsung Electronics after the Korea-based company revealed that it aims to ship 18 million...
Friday 25 February 2011
MSI expected to see 10-15% notebook shipment growth in 2011
Taiwan-based notebook vendor Micro-Star International (MSI) is expected to see its notebook shipments grow 10-15% on year in 2011, up from its shipments of 2.8 million units in 2010,...
Friday 25 February 2011
Apple updates MacBook Pro with new CPU, graphics and I/O technology
Apple has updated its MacBook Pro family with next generation processors and graphics, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology and a new FaceTime HD camera. Featuring the latest dual-core...
Friday 25 February 2011
Compal to set up notebook plant in Chongqing
Compal Electronics announced on February 24 that it will invest NT$294 million (US$9.94 million) to set up a notebook plant in Chongqing, China slated to begin to volume production...
Thursday 24 February 2011
Taiwan market: Toshiba launches in-house made notebooks
Taiwan-based Grainew, the distributor of Toshiba in Taiwan, has recently announced several new in-house made notebooks under its R830, R840 and R850 series that feature panel sizes...
Thursday 24 February 2011
No room to hike quotes in 1Q11, say Taiwan component makers
Taiwan-based notebook component makers originally planned to raise quotes to reflect increases in labor and material costs, but it is practically impossible for their clients to accept...
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...