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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 27 January 2011
Quanta to start pilot production at Chongqing plants in March
Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer will start pilot production for Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) orders at its plants in Chongqing, China in March with a volume of 40,000-60,000...
Thursday 27 January 2011
Vendors push netbooks into education market
As demand for netbook from the educational market is gradually rising, netbook vendors such as Acer, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell have all launched models specifically targeting...
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Post-holidays will be the most serious period for labor shortages
Despite downstream notebook makers have recently begun to send employees to assist their upstream component makers, sources from upstream component makers pointed out that the best...
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Pegatron to see strong 2011
Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is confident about its sales performance in 2011 thanks to the CDMA-based and the new-generation iPhone orders, which should total...
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Connector makers expect good profit if no price war
Taiwan-based PC connector makers expect the connector industry will see good growth in 2011 benefiting by the new notebook platforms as well as USB 3.0 applications. However, growth...
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Big vendors become even bigger in netbook market
First-tier netbook players such as Acer, Samsung Electronics, Asustek Computer, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba are expected to become even bigger as second-tier players are gradually...
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Asustek expects a slight drop in 1Q11 revenues
Asustek Computer CFO David Chang recently pointed out that the company's revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010 met expectation though total was not a record as hoped. As for the...
Monday 24 January 2011
Lenovo-NEC cooperation could change notebook industry lineup
Despite that Japan-based PC vendor NEC has already clarified that the company has not yet made any official announcement and has not yet made any decision about a merger with China-based...
Monday 24 January 2011
Samsung aiming to increase its 2011 notebook shipment volume by over 60% on year
Korea-based notebook vendor Samsung Electronics has notified its upstream component partners that the company is set to increase its notebook shipment volume by over 60% on year in...
Monday 24 January 2011
HP cuts January notebook shipment goal on component shortage, say sources
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been forced to revise downward its notebook shipment goal for January due to a delay in shipments of some key parts and components from upstream suppliers,...
Friday 21 January 2011
New notebook platform and new chipsets to push demand for passive components in 2011
Passive component makers including Yageo and Walsin Technology are positive about the business outlook for 2011 as the launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge platform and G41 chipsets will...
Friday 21 January 2011
Acer looks to number 1 notebook vendor ranking in 2011, says chairman
Acer chairman JT Wang has reiterated that Acer aims to become the number one notebook vendor worldwide in 2011 and will also make a significant achievement in the tablet PC segment...
Friday 21 January 2011
Compal begins construction of new plant in Chengdu, China
Compal Electronics has begun construction of a new plant in Chengdu, western China slated to complete in June 2011, according to local media reports. Compal said its total investments...
Thursday 20 January 2011
Gigabyte aims to see notebook shipments grow 20-50% in 2011, says paper
Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology is targeting to see notebook shipments grow 20-50% on year in 2011 and is set to launch 4-5 new notebooks in February, according to a Chinese-language...
Thursday 20 January 2011
Netbooks to maintain shipments above 30 million in 2011
The netbook market is expected to maintain shipments of about 30 million units in 2011 with the top-three vendors to ship about six million units each, according to sources from notebook...