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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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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, according...
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...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Sony orders two million notebooks from Foxconn for 2010, says paper
In order to strengthen its entry-level notebook segment, Sony has expanded its notebook outsourcing to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to a total of two million units...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
PC market rebound to drive double-digit growth through 2014, says IDC
After a severely constrained first half, steeply discounted PCs along with improving economic conditions steered the global PC market back into the black in the latter half of 2009...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Corning supplies LGE with Gorilla glass for new ultra-slim premium mobile PC
CORNING, N.Y., March 15, 2010 - Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that Corning's Gorilla glass has been designed into the LG X300, a newly released premium mobile PC...
Monday 15 March 2010
MSI launches 17-inch gaming notebook
Micro-Star International (MSI) has launched its latest 17-inch gaming notebook - the GE700 - equipped with Intel's latest core i5 processor, ATI Radeon HD 5730 discrete graphics card...
Monday 15 March 2010
Paragon to expand capacity for vacuum sputtering
The board of directors of Paragon Technologies, a Taiwan-based provider of vacuum sputtering processing to prevent EMI in notebooks, has approved plans to spend NT$208 million (US$6.54...
Monday 15 March 2010
Lenovo acquisition plan may hurt second-tier notebook makers, say observers
Commenting on Lenovo's plan to acquire local PC brands in emerging markets to expand its global notebook market share, industry observers said such a plan may benefit first-tier notebook...
Friday 12 March 2010
Taiwan market: Gigabyte changes notebook distributor to Genuine C&C
Gigabyte Technology is adjusting its notebook marketing strategy in order to improve its notebook shipments and has shifted its distributing rights in Taiwan to Genuine C&C from...
Friday 12 March 2010
Computer storage market set to resume growth in 2010, says iSuppli
After suffering a decline in 2009, global revenues from shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) and optical disk drives (ODDs) used in computers is expected to grow in 2010 as PC shipments...