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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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Monday 20 December 2010
Notebook makers to see slight growth or flat performance in January shipments, says paper
Benefiting from strong orders, Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer is expected to see its notebook shipments rise to 4.6 million units in January 2010, while fellow competitor...
Monday 20 December 2010
Cooling module maker Auras sees revenue share of non-notebook business rise
Taiwan-based cooling module maker Auras Technology is already seeing its revenue share from non-notebook cooling modules increase to about 30% in the second half of 2010 and the share...
Friday 17 December 2010
Acer appoints new head of Pan American operations
Acer has announced that it has appointed Emmanuel Fromont, currently vice president of the EMEA Packard Bell Division, to serve as its new president of Acer Pan America operations...
Thursday 16 December 2010
Dynapack and Celxpert cancel merger plans
Taiwan-based notebook battery makers Dynapack International Technology and Celxpert Energy, on December 15, announced the cancellation of their merger plans and will void their stock...
Thursday 16 December 2010
Quartz component makers expect 1Q11 sales to beat seasonality
Taiwan-based quartz component makers including TXC, Harmony Electronics and Siward Crystal Technology expect their revenues for the first quarter of 2011 to remain flat or drop by...
Thursday 16 December 2010
Rising Taiwan exchange rate to pose significant risk for IT industry in 2011, says Wistron chairman
Wistron chairman Simon Lin, at TecMall Forum in Taiwan, pointed out that the notebook manufacturing industry will continue to face rising labor and material costs in 2011, but these...
Wednesday 15 December 2010
Asustek internally aiming to ship 25 million notebooks in 2011, says paper
Taiwan-based notebook brand vendor Asustek Computer, at its global sales meeting, has set its internal notebook shipment goal for 2011 at 25 million units, up 48% from 16.9 million...
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Taiwan-based cable makers see strong performance in November because of Apple and Microsoft
Taiwan-based cable makers Foxlink, I-Sheng Electric and Cable and Longwell have all seen their sales for November 2010 grow on year.
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Second-tier notebook makers may benefit from Brazil procurement orders
As the Brazil government is set to cooperate with Linux operating system designer Mandriva and Intel to offer 1.5 million Mandriva-based Classmate PCs to local children and will have...
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Nvidia seeing popularity grow in tablet PC market
Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform has recently become a new spotlight in the tablet PC market as most of the tablet PC vendors including Acer, Asustek Computer, Toshiba and Samsung Electronics...
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Second-tier notebook makers see orders return
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook makers have recently started seeing some orders from their previous clients return as several China-based white-box notebook makers, which cannot...
Monday 13 December 2010
Intel cuts Huron River discounts to notebook brands to digest Calpella inventory
Despite that Intel's latest Huron River platform for notebooks will hit the market in less than a month, first-tier notebook brands including Asustek Computer, Hewlett-Packard (HP),...
Friday 10 December 2010
Compal ships only 3.8 million notebooks in November
Compal Electronics saw its notebook shipments decline 10% sequentially to 3.8 million units in November 2010. Market watchers attributed the decline to a delay in shipments by one...
Thursday 9 December 2010
China market: 3Q10 average notebook retail price slips 1.2%, says research firm
In China, the average notebook retail price in third-quarter 2010 stood at CNY5,192 yuan (US$767), dropping 1.2% on quarter, according to market survey agency zdc.zol.com.cn.
Thursday 9 December 2010
China TFT LCD panel industry overview
China's development of the TFT LCD sector began later than in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. However, the enormous growth of domestic demand, coupled with many years accumulated technical...