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.
Some market watchers in Taiwan have revised upward their notebook shipment forecast for Inventec for 2010 to 28-30 million units, from 24-26 million units projected previously, as...
Quanta Computer saw its monthly revenues grow 21.2% sequentially to a year-high of NT$72.81 billion (US$2.27 billion) in September on shipments of 3.6 million notebooks, whereas rival...
PCB maker Tripod Technology has reported record consolidated revenues of NT$3.33 billion (US$103.59 million) for September 2009, up 6% on month and up 12% on year, driven by demand...
Panel prices for LCD TVs as well as other applications have started to drop in the first half of October 2009, as clients have become cautious about their inventory levels, according...
Taiwan-based chassis maker Catcher Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$1.69 billion (US$52.59 million) for September, up 16.35% on month, and NT$4.49 billion for the...
Back-to-school sales followed a downward trend like most of 2009, but there were a few bright spots for the US consumer technology and school and office supply industries, according...
Taiwan notebook ODM Compal Electronics has announced an investment of US$20 million to establish a new subsidiary, Compal Digital Technology, in Kunshan, China later this quarter and...
Taiwan-based DMP Electronics has launched a US$100 netbook, the Edubook, that will be shipped to overseas markets in component form to be assembled by partners in other countries to...
Compal Electronics shipped about 3.9 million notebooks in September, outperforming Quanta Computer and its 3.6-3.8 million units, due to stable orders from vendors such as Dell and...
Backlight unit (BLU) and projector maker Coretronic has announced consolidated revenues of NT$6.83 billion (US$212.47 million) for September, a growth of 14.96% from NT$5.94 billion...
Taiwan-based notebook battery makers Simplo Technology and DynaPack International Technology have both announced sequential revenue growth for September 2009. Simplo had revenues of...
Acer chairman JT Wang recently assured investors that the company will achieve its forecasted 10% growth in consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 thanks to the launch...
Cyntec's gross margins are estimated to grow 3-4pp in the third quarter of 2009, from 33.7% in the previous quarter, according to market watchers. The company saw its revenues increase...
Taiwan-based notebook vendors Acer, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) have recently cut their ultra-thin notebook prices in the Taiwan retail channel to reduce their...
