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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 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, according...
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 president...
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 EPS...
Wednesday 1 September 2010
Acer tops desktop and notebook PC markets in Russia in 2Q10, says IDC
Taiwan-based Acer grabbed top-spot positions in both desktop and notebook segments of the Russian PC market in the second quarter of 2010, said International Data Corporation (IDC)...
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Compal chairman says notebook demand still strong, reports paper
Taiwan-based notebook maker Compal Electronics chairman Rock Hsu at a meeting with Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on August 30 pointed out that notebook demand in...
Tuesday 31 August 2010
AUO hiking LED backlight proportion for notebook, monitor panels
AU Optronics (AUO) is increasing its applications of LED backlights for its TFT-LCD panels used in notebooks and LCD monitors, with the LED backlight proportion for the former to be...
Monday 30 August 2010
Notebook players taking measures to avoid risk from inland advance
Taiwan-based notebook and upstream components makers, which were originally set to establish plants in inland China, following Hewlett-Packard (HP), have recently started taking measures...
Friday 27 August 2010
Flextronics expected to ship 12-15 million notebooks in 2011, say sources
EMS provider Flextronics International is expected to see its notebook orders in 2011 increase from only six million units in 2010 to 12-15 million in 2011, according to market sou...
Friday 27 August 2010
Samsung tablet PC aims to compete against the mini iPad, say sources
Samsung Electronics is preparing to demonstrate its new tablet PC, the Galaxy Tab at IFA 2010, which will be held from September 3-8 in Berlin, Germany. Sources from upstream component...
Thursday 26 August 2010
Regional vendors impacted by first-tier notebook brands offloading inventory to emerging markets
As first-tier notebook brands including Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer, reportedly are dropping their prices for older models and selling them in emerging markets to digest inventory,...
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Inventec expects all-in-one PCs, tablets, e-book readers to drive revenue growth in 2H10
Inventec foresees that all-in-one PCs, tablet PCs and e-book readers will be the main source of growth in its consolidated revenues for the second half of 2010 while sales revenues...