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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 10 December 2009
Compal announces growth in November 2009 revenues; ships 4.5 million notebooks
Compal Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$78.42 billion (US$2.4 billion) for November 2009, up 4.6% on month and 161.3% on year. The amount is also a new monthly...
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Acer chairman blames HP and Dell for poor ultra-thin notebook sales
Acer chairman JT Wang believes ultra-thin notebooks with long battery-lives will be the future trend in the notebook industry and he recently urged Intel, which plans to mainly push...
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Acer shipments in 4Q09 expected to mainly benefit from Europe, North America
Acer is expected to ship 4.5-5 million notebooks to Europe, due to growing market demand, and 3-3.5 million units to the North American market, mainly through cooperation with Best...
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Quanta hits new high, Wistron sees on-month drop in November 2009 revenues
Quanta Computer has reported consolidated revenues of NT$93.3 billion (US$2.88 billion) for November 2009, the highest monthly figure on record and up 8.5% on month and 36.6% on year;...
Tuesday 8 December 2009
10% employee-owned notebooks to become primary work PC in 2009, says Gartner
Enterprises are increasingly considering the use of employee-owned notebooks, and more than 40% of organizations have a policy regarding the use of employee-owned PCs, according to...
Tuesday 8 December 2009
Inventec sees on-month increase, but on-year drop in November revenues
Inventec has posted revenues of NT$34.15 billion (US$1.06 billion) for November, up 10.1% on month, but down 12.5% on year, while its combined revenues from January to November reached...
Monday 7 December 2009
Sonix to ship webcam ICs to Japan-based notebook vendor
IC designer Sonix Technology's notebook webcam IC has entered the supply chain of a Japan-based notebook vendor, who used to mainly adopt chips provided from companies in Japan, with...
Friday 4 December 2009
Acer takes number two PC rank in 3Q09, says iSuppli
Acer rose to second place in the worldwide PC business in the third quarter of 2009, up from third place during the previous quarter. The company supplanted Dell, which declined to...
Friday 4 December 2009
IT Month 2009: Asustek, Acer and MSI see strong ultra-thin notebook sales
Asustek Computer, Acer and Micro-Star International (MSI) all expect their ultra-thin notebook sales at the IT Month 2009 consumer trade show in Taiwan to be higher than in 2008, according...
Friday 4 December 2009
Vendors to launch Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010
Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo and even Micro-Star International (MSI), which originally planned to launch in December, are all set to launch their Atom N450-based netbooks on January...
Friday 4 December 2009
Notebook and STB IC design houses to enjoy sequential shipment growth in 1H10
Most Taiwan-based notebook related and STB IC design houses, including Ene Technology, Integrated Technology Express (ITE), Richtek Technology, Anpec Electronics, Global Mixed-mode...
Friday 4 December 2009
Foxconn purchase of Dell PC plant unlikely to impact notebook makers in the short term
Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) acquisition of Dell's PC plant in Poland is unlikely to help boost its notebook shipments significantly in the short term since...
Thursday 3 December 2009
Intel says marketing strategy not determined by AMD settlement
Sources in Taiwan's notebook industry are claiming that one consequence of the recent agreement between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to end all outstanding legal disputes...
Thursday 3 December 2009
Micron sampling 6Gbps SATA SSD
Micron Technology has introduced what it claims is the industry's fastest solid-state drive (SSD) for notebook and desktop PCs. The new RealSSD C300 drive is the first to leverage...
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Ultra-thin notebooks may share the same fate as netbooks, say market watchers
Some market watchers have recently expressed their concern that ultra-thin notebooks may share the same fate as netbooks since players ranging from first-tier vendors to white-box...