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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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Wednesday 7 July 2010
Quanta, Compal expected to see decreased notebook shipments in July
Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics are expected to see notebook shipments fall from 4.7-4.8 million units in June to 4.2-4.3 million units in July and from 4.3 million units to...
Wednesday 7 July 2010
HannStar Board expects modest growth in 3Q10
Taiwan-based notebook PCB maker HannStar Board expects shipments to grow 5-10% sequentially in the third quarter compared to a 20% growth recorded in the same quarter of past years,...
Monday 5 July 2010
MSI announces netbook with DDR3-support
MSI has announced its latest netbook, the Wind U160DX, which supports DDR3 memory and comes with the Intel Atom N455 processor and MSI's own Turbo Drive Engine (TDE) technology.
Monday 5 July 2010
Compal chairman denies establishing plant in Chongqing, China
Compal Electronics chairman Rock Hsu's previous statements that the company plans to build a small production site in Sichuan province, China has prompted rumors that Compal will...
Monday 5 July 2010
Wistron notebook shipments to grow 20% on year in 2011, says paper
Based on strong orders from Acer, Lenovo and Dell, Wistron's notebook shipments in 2011 will grow 20% on year up from 29.1 million units, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Monday 5 July 2010
Taiwan notebook companies support PSU standardization
Taiwan-based notebook companies have indicated that they are in favor for the standardization of power supply units (PSU) after the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)...
Monday 5 July 2010
Dell notebook orders to Foxconn to reach 5 million units in 2011, says paper
Dell has expanded its notebook orders to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to five million units for 2011, up from one million units in 2010, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 2 July 2010
LED TV vendors to increase outsourcing of power supplies in 2011, says Delta CEO
Delta Electronics has begun producing power supply units (PSUs) for LED-backlit LCD TV vendors based in Japan, South Korea, Europe and Taiwan, according to company CEO Yancey Hai.
Thursday 1 July 2010
Inventec halts Kohjinsha brand notebooks
Taiwan-based notebook maker Inventec has recently decided to halt launching mini-notebook products using its sub-brand Kohjinsha (KJS) and the team in the future will focus on notebook...
Thursday 1 July 2010
Sony offers new firmware for overheating issue in VAIO F11 and CW2 series notebooks
Sony has announced that the company's VAIO F11 and CW2 series notebooks may overheat due to a potential malfunction of the internal temperature management system and could result...
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Passive component distributors Podak expects flat revenues in 3Q10
Passive component distributor Podak has revealed that it has seen its order visibility extending to September, but expects its revenues to stay flat in the third quarter due to particularly...
Tuesday 29 June 2010
Digitimes insight: Notebook makers to see weak performance in 2H10
Taiwan-based first-tier notebook makers are unlikely to see strong quarterly shipment performance in the second half of 2010 as in previous years, according to Joanne Chien, senior...
Friday 25 June 2010
Pegatron has chance to manufacture desktop PCs for Acer
After recently landing notebook orders from Acer, Pegatron Technology has a chance of receiving orders for desktop PCs from the vendor too, according to sources from PC players.
Friday 25 June 2010
Acer to move mainstream ultra-thin notebooks under Gateway brand
Acer has recently adjusted its ultra-thin notebook strategy and plans to move its ultra-thin notebooks under the Gateway brand, and only the 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline will remain...
Thursday 24 June 2010
IC designers look to over 20% order growth from DSC and game console sectors in 3Q10
Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to see orders from the DSC and gaming console sectors increase over 20% sequentially in the third quarter and those from the notebook segment...