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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 25 March 2010
Asustek to adopt USB 3.0 in PC product lines
Asustek Computer has announced that the company will add USB 3.0 support in its PC product lines including mainstream notebook, Eee PC and Eee Box.
Thursday 25 March 2010
Inventec to invest in Bright LED
Inventec has announced that it will subscribe to NT$360 million (US$11.3 million) worth of convertible bonds issued by Taiwan-based LED chip packaging house Bright Led Electronics...
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Acer debuts TimelineX series notebooks
Acer on March 23 unveiled TimelineX, an extended series of the existing Timeline ultra-thin notebook. Acer expects its Timeline and TimelineX models together will account for 30-40%...
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Corning plans to establish melting tanks in China
Corning, in a seminar at FPD China 2010, pointed out that the company is in negotiation with clients and the China government over a plan to building glass melting tanks in China...
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Luxa AR, keep your perspective clear from now on
Luxa, the exclusive accessory brand with a simple touch of luxury for a unique lifestyle, is introducing a new series of anti-reflection screen protection films for notebook and MacBook...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Digitimes Insight: Shipments of notebooks with HD webcams to grow strongly in 2011
Worldwide shipment proportion of HD-ready (1280 x 800 or 1280 x 720) notebook webcam in 2011 is expected to rise 23 percentage points to 35% from 2010 as the prices of HD webcams...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Chimei Innolux shifting LCD monitor lines from southern China to western China
Chimei Innolux Corporation (CIC) has begun shifting its capacity dedicated to annual ODM production of 7-8 million Hewlett-Packard (HP) LCD monitors at its factory in Shenzhen, southern...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Aiming to become 'MediaTek' for white-box notebooks: Q&A with Shuttle president David Chen
Aiming to become an equivalent of MediaTek in the white-box notebook market, Shuttle has been working aggressively to set up standards for notebook components and other specifications,...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Acer notebook shipments to surge in 2H10 benefiting by enterprise market, says Acer chairman
Acer expects its notebook shipments will see significant growth in the second half of 2010 due to recovery in the enterprise PC market, while the company's shipments in the second...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
IC distributor WPG positive about 2Q10
WPG Holdings (WPG) holds an optimistic outlook for the second quarter of 2010, attributing the strong quarter to increased demand coming from the handset and LCD TV sectors in China,...
Friday 19 March 2010
Notebook makers having difficulty shifting costs to upstream suppliers
Notebook makers are unlikely to be able to shift some of their costs to upstream components suppliers in 2010 since most of the notebook components are currently in tight supply,...
Thursday 18 March 2010
Notebook keyboard makers expect 10% or lower drops in 1Q10 revenues
Taiwan-based notebook keyboard makers Chicony Electronics, Sunrex Technology and Darfon Electronics expect 10% or lower sequential drops in their first-quarter revenues.
Thursday 18 March 2010
Intel notebook CPUs in tight supply, says sources
Intel's latest Core i7/i5/i3 series notebook processors are currently facing tight supply, as Acer, optimistic about the upcoming demand for the related notebooks, has placed large...
Thursday 18 March 2010
IC design houses brace for decreased orders from IT vendors in 2Q10
Taiwan-based IC design houses have received notices from motherboard, graphics card, LCD monitor and even second-tier notebook makers indicating that their orders for IC solutions...
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Acer to globally debut Calpella Timeline notebooks March 22
Acer will unveil its Calpella Timeline series notebooks equipped with Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors for the global market on March 22, according to industry sources in Taiwa...