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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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Friday 22 October 2010
Clevo may hit monthly record shipments of 200,000 notebooks in 4Q10
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook maker Clevo will start shipments, in the fourth quarter, to an overseas client which has won an open-bid procurement project and therefore stands...
Thursday 21 October 2010
Apple reinvents notebooks with new MacBook Air
Apple has unveiled an all new MacBook Air, the first of a next generation of notebooks which will replace mechanical hard disks and optical drives with Internet services and solid...
Thursday 21 October 2010
Quanta may see 4Q10 notebook shipments up 5-10% on quarter
Quanta Computer is expected to see its notebook shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010 grow 5-10% sequentially, up from the company's forecast of remaining flat, according to market...
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Engineer samples of Android 3.0-loaded tablet PCs to be ready in December
Google has recently notified its partners that the Android 3.0 operating system (OS) will soon be completed with the related tablet PC engineer samples set to show up in December,...
Tuesday 19 October 2010
First-tier PC vendors unlikely to mass ship tablet PCs this year
With most first-tier PC vendors lacking a content supply platform and support from telecom carriers, and with Google's Honeycomb operating system (Android 3.5) not likely to be released...
Friday 15 October 2010
MSI announces new 17-inch multimedia notebooks
Micro-Star International (MSI) has announced the new 17.3-inch FX700 and FR700 notebooks featuring Intel's Core i5 processor and MSI's exclusive TDE Turbo technology.
Thursday 14 October 2010
Insyde becomes new leader in notebook BIOS market with 40% share
Insyde Software, assisted by Intel, has seen its share in the notebook BIOS market rise to 40%, surpassing the previous leader Phoenix, which currently only has about 20% share, according...
Thursday 14 October 2010
Inventec refutes rumor about accelerated production schedule at Chongqing plants
Inventec has refuted a recent rumor circulating in China's IT market that it will move forward its schedule and start production at its newly established plants in Chongqing, China...
Thursday 14 October 2010
Samsung could surpass Toshiba in hard drive shipments
Benefiting from its strategy of adopting own-brand hard drives in its own-brand IT products such as notebooks, Samsung Electronics hard drive shipments have a chance to surpass those...
Wednesday 13 October 2010
LCD panel makers prepare price increase for IT panels
With IT (notebook and monitor) panel prices dropping below cash cost, TFT-LCD panel makers are brewing plans to increase prices back to cost levels, while reducing production to stop...
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Wistron sets product shipment target for 2011
Wistron internally expects its notebook shipments in 2011 to reach 35 million units as the company will sees its orders volume share from Lenovo, Acer and Dell increase; meanwhile,...
Monday 11 October 2010
Motherboard makers see growth in September revenues
Taiwan-based motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI), Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) and Pegatron Technology have all seen growths...
Monday 11 October 2010
Quanta, Compal see record notebook shipments in September
Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics both saw record notebook shipments in September, shipping five million and 4.6 million units, respectively.
Friday 8 October 2010
Wistron to reveal whether there is China investment plan for Dell
Dell China has recently announced to establish a new R&D (operating) center in Chengdu, China with partners Compal Electronics and Asia Vital Components (AVC) both having decided...
Friday 8 October 2010
China market: Acer notebook and desktop shipments increase sharply
Acer's shipments of notebooks and desktops in the China market through channels increased sharply prior to the October 1 national holidays with the growth rate topping 40-50% as compared...