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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 10 September 2010
Notebook orders buoy Shuttle sales in August
Shuttle achieved consolidated sales of NT$1.17 billion (US$36.5 million) in August 2010, an historic high reflecting growth of 74.2% on month and 832.4% on year, according to data...
Friday 10 September 2010
Compal reports revenues, notebook shipment growth for August
Compal Electronics saw consolidated revenues grow 10.9% on month and 19.1% on year to NT$65.95 billion (US$2.1 billion) in August 2010, with notebook shipments up almost 20% sequentially...
Thursday 9 September 2010
Quanta and Wistron see revenues and notebook shipments rise on month in August
Notebook makers Quanta Computer and Wistron have announced shipments of 4.4 million units and 2.25 million units for August 2010, up from 3.6 million units and 2.2 million units in...
Wednesday 8 September 2010
Inventec sees August notebook shipments down over 13% sequentially
Inventec saw its August 2010 notebook shipments drop 13.3% from 1.5 million units in July to only 1.3 million units, with the revenues for the month also down 11.9% on month and 23.1%...
Wednesday 8 September 2010
Protective component makers Thinking and Mag.Layers see declines in August revenues
Protective component maker Thinking Electronic Industrial has reported consolidated revenues of NT$392 million (US$12.26 million) for August, down 5.9% sequentially due to declining...
Monday 6 September 2010
Notebook supply chain still has no clear visibility for December orders
Despite that first-tier notebook makers expect a 10% sequential growth in their notebook shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010, sources from component makers have said that their...
Friday 3 September 2010
VIA Technologies posts net loss for 1H10
VIA Technologies has reported a net loss of NT$1.44 billion (US$45.011 million) or NT$1.89 per share for the first half of 2010, versus NT$786 million in losses a year ago. Revenues...
Friday 3 September 2010
Acer adopts Nvidia 3D solution for latest 3D notebook
Acer has adopted Nvidia's shutter glass solution for its latest 3D notebook, the Aspire 5745DG, which features a 15.6-inch panel and GeForce GT 425M GPU, and is manufactured by Quanta...
Friday 3 September 2010
Nvidia expects to take top position with new Fermi-based graphics cards, says notebook GM
Nvidia expects to gain back its leading position in the graphics card market in the second half of 2010 with its new Fermi-based notebook graphics cards, the GeForce 400M series,...
Friday 3 September 2010
Solid capacitor maker Feei Cherng enters HP notebook component supply chain
Solid capacitor maker Feei Cherng has reportedly entered the component supply chain for Hewlett-Packard (HP) notebooks, which will increase the company's shipments in the second half...
Friday 3 September 2010
PCB makers lower notebook PCB shipment outlook for 3Q10
PCB maker HannStar Board has revised its shipment guidance for notebook PCBs from growth to decline for the third quarter of 2010, while peer companies including Gold Circuit Electronics,...
Thursday 2 September 2010
HP may not see 2010 notebook shipments surpass 40 million units, says Digitimes Research
Due to a strong nosedive in global consumer notebook demand, all the first-tier notebook vendors except Apple, reduced their notebook orders significantly in July with Hewlett-Packard's...
Thursday 2 September 2010
PC replacement trend for enterprise market to appear in 1Q11, says Asustek
Asustek Computer vice president Kevin Lin has commented that most enterprises recently started to finish their budget planning for PC replacements, and are expected to start in the...
Thursday 2 September 2010
Compal to see 3Q10 notebook shipments drop up to 10% on quarter
Compal Electronics has reduced its third-quarter 2010 notebook shipment forecast from a growth of 5% originally to a single-digit percentage drop on quarter, according to company...
Wednesday 1 September 2010
Quanta sees 2Q10 gross margin hit record low
Quanta Computer has published consolidated revenues of NT$547.64 billion (US$16.67 billion), a growth of 58% on year; net profit of NT$10.43 billion, a growth of 12% on year; and...