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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 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...
Friday 8 October 2010
PCB makers see demand for notebooks pick up
PCB makers HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) have both indicated that notebook OEMs began to step up their pace of orders at the end of September 2010, resulting in...
Thursday 7 October 2010
Darfon sees on-month revenues growth in September
Benefiting by notebook vendors starting to increase their orders in September 2010, notebook keyboard maker Darfon Electronics saw its consolidated revenues for the month grow 11.2%...
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Tablet PCs will not replace conventional notebooks, say Acer founder
Acer founder Stan Shih, at a forum hosted by the Taiwan government, stated that tablet PCs will not replace conventional notebooks because tablets are positioned to fill a specific...
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Fujitsu aims to ship 10 million notebooks in 2012
Japan-based Fujitsu expects to ship five million notebooks in 2010 and aims to increase shipments to 10 million units in 2012, according to Fujitsu Taiwan.
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Notebook makers reportedly refusing to accept low margin orders from HP, says paper
Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron have all reportedly refused to accept low-gross margin orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for 2011 with Quanta...
Tuesday 5 October 2010
SanDisk gearing up for future maintream embedded memory
SanDisk's integrated solid-state drive (iSSD), designed for use in mobile computing platforms such as tablet PCs and ultra-thin notebooks, is available for sampling to OEMs, according...
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Rising Taiwan exchange rate impacts notebook makers
As the New Taiwan dollar (NT$) exchange rate to the US dollars has risen 2.4% over the past month, sources from Taiwan-based notebook makers pointed out that the increase will directly...
Monday 4 October 2010
Players turning optimistic toward 4Q10 as sales increase during China holidays
As IT channel retailers in China started digesting their notebook and smartphone inventories on September 20 and saw their sales pick up significantly after October 1, the first day...