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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 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...
Thursday 9 December 2010
Intel CEO defends PC amid tablet, smartphone growth
Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini has defended the PC market and said the company is still on track to have the best year ever amid the rapid growth of tablets and smartphones...
Thursday 9 December 2010
Intel holds LOEM Summit in Taiwan to assist regional brand vendors
Intel has recently invited regional brand vendors worldwide to its LOEM Summit, which will be held from December 7-10 in Taiwan, to assist them to find manufacturing partners. Several...
Thursday 9 December 2010
Compal to focus on profitability in 2011, says company president
Ray Chen, president of notebook maker Compal Electronics, at a meeting of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), expressed his optimism toward the notebook industry in 2011 and noted...
Thursday 9 December 2010
Quanta says no idea about rumors of cutting into iPad 2 supply chain
Quanta has declined to comment on rumors that it has cut into the supply chain for iPad 2 saying it cannot comment on its products or clients, while emphasizing that it has no clue...
Thursday 9 December 2010
Acer, Samsung to launch Chrome notebook in 1H11, says Google Taiwan
Google Taiwan at a video press conference on December 8 announced its latest Chrome OS and pointed out that both Acer and Samsung Electronics will launch Chrome OS-based notebooks...
Thursday 9 December 2010
Quanta, Wistron up, while Inventec down in November revenues
Notebook makers Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec have announced revenues for November 2010 with both Quanta and Wistron seeing growth, and Inventec a decline.
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Notebook vendors eyeing Latin America market
Vendors have been looking to the growth potential of the notebook and peripheral markets in Latin America, which is thought to be larger than that in China because of fast economic...