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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 5 January 2011
CES 2011: Toshiba to unveil leading edge technologies
Las Vegas and Tokyo - (Business Wire) - Toshiba Corporation will invite visitors to the CES 2011 to experience how life can be "Fun and Easy by Leading Technology" with the...
Wednesday 5 January 2011
IC design houses expect positive January results thanks to surprisingly strong desktop and notebook sales in China
Most Taiwan-based IC design houses should see January 2011 revenues rise 10% to more than 20% sequentially thanks to strong demand from China. Most market watchers previously predicted...
Tuesday 4 January 2011
CES 2011: AMD introduces Radeon HD 6000M series GPUs for notebook
AMD has introduced its next generation mobile graphics technology, the AMD Radeon HD 6000M series, delivering AMD's highest performing notebook graphics for those who want to experience...
Tuesday 4 January 2011
MSI, Gigabyte to outsource notebooks to Pegatron, Clevo, says paper
Taiwan-based notebook makers Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology reportedly will outsource their notebook production to Pegatron Technology and Clevo, respectively,...
Tuesday 4 January 2011
HyDrive seeing weak demand in notebook industry
HyDrive, an optical drive model that features a built-in solid state drive (SSD) and was launched by Hitachi LG Data Storage (HLDS) as well as Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST),...
Monday 3 January 2011
Sunrex Chongqing plants to start shipping notebook keyboards in 1Q11
Taiwan-based notebook keyboard maker Sunrex Technology's plants in Chongqing, China will start mass production and begin shipping to its clients in the first quarter of 2011, according...
Monday 3 January 2011
Lower than forecast sequential growth in 4Q10 notebook shipments, say Taiwan makers
First-tier Taiwan-based notebook ODMs have downward adjusted on-quarter growth in fourth-quarter 2010 shipment volume from originally projected 3-3.3% to below 3%, according to industry...
Monday 3 January 2011
Clevo to increase notebook shipments to Brazil
Clevo expects its monthly notebook shipments to rise to 150,000 units during the first quarter of 2011 mainly due to orders from three new channel clients in Brazil, according to the...
Friday 31 December 2010
Notebook ODMs postpone parts and components orders to January
Some ODM notebook makers have postponed their orders for parts and components to January 2011 as their shipments have been affected by continued blizzards in Europe and the US, according...
Thursday 30 December 2010
Simplo expects production at new plants to start in August 2011
Chairman of notebook battery maker Simplo Technology, Sung Fu-Hsin, at a forum in China, has said labor shortages in 2011 are expected to be very serious, but Simplo's new plant in...
Thursday 30 December 2010
Notebook makers do not rule out supporting upstream partners to avoid labor shortages
As labor shortages in coastal areas of China in 2011 are expected to be even more serious than in previous years, sources from notebook makers said that they will not rule out the...
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Tai Twun expanding connector lineup
Tai Twun Enterprise, a Taiwan-based maker of connectors used in card readers for notebooks which account for 80% of its revenues and have a global market share of 60%, is diversifying...
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Notebook vendors seeing R&D delays for Android 3.0 tablets
Notebook vendors have expressed concerns about the launch schedule of their Android 3.0 tablet PCs as Google is currently giving priority for Android 3.0 support mainly to smartphone...
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Handset vendors prefer notebook to handset makers for outsourcing tablet PCs, say Taiwan handset makers
With handset vendors stepping into tablet PCs, priority is being given to notebook ODMs rather than handset makers for outsourced production, according to Taiwan-based handset make...
Wednesday 29 December 2010
MSI to outsource some notebook production beginning 2011, says chairman
Micro-Star International (MSI) will outsource a portion of its notebooks to Taiwan-based ODMs beginning 2011 mainly due to unstable labor supply in China. It will not consider EMS...