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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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Monday 17 August 2009
Notebook PCB makers more optimistic about 3Q09
Taiwan notebook PCB makers HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) have lifted their third-quarter notebook PCB shipment goals to 15% growth due to the launch of ultra-thin...
Friday 14 August 2009
First-tier makers to ship around 14 million notebooks in September
Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron, Inventec and Pegatron Computer are expected to ship around 13-14 million notebooks in September 2009, according to industry sources.
Friday 14 August 2009
Nvidia to launch new chipsets for Intel- and AMD-based notebooks in 1Q10
Nvidia plans to launch two new chipsets, the MCP89 and MCP99 for Intel-based notebooks, and MCP85 for AMD notebooks, in the first quarter of 2010, according sources at notebook mak...
Friday 14 August 2009
Wistron lands 2010 orders for two consumer notebooks from Dell
Wistron has reportedly landed orders for two consumer notebooks for delivery in 2010 from Dell that will push Wistron's notebook shipments to 32 million units in 2010, compared to...
Friday 14 August 2009
Lenovo to service ThinkPad batteries on non-safety related issue
Lenovo is quietly offering a service extension program for battery packs used in some of its ThinkPad notebooks, including the ThinkPad R60, R61, T60, T61, X60 and X61, as the batteries...
Thursday 13 August 2009
Taiwan notebook makers to see increased orders from HP in August
Notebook makers including Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics have recently received new orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for August.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Acer lowers ultra-thin sales target for 2H09
Acer chairman JT Wang has commented that sales performance of ultra-thin notebooks has so far fallen short of goals, adding Acer has internally downward adjusted the segment's target...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Samsung expected to ship 4.5 million notebooks in 2009
Samsung Electronics shipped 1.09 million notebooks in the second quarter of 2009, and is expected to ship 4.5 million units for the year largely through cooperation with mobile telecom...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
CIS supply continues to tighten
The supply of CMOS image sensors (CIS), which remains tight from Samsung Electronics and Aptina, has also recently fallen short from OmniVision, according to industry sources. The...
Tuesday 11 August 2009
BLU maker Coretronic reports 4% sequential increase in July revenues
Backlight unit (BLU) maker Coretronic has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.32 billion (US$162.17 million) for July, up 4.18% from NT$5.11 billion for June, but down 8% from...
Tuesday 11 August 2009
MSI has chance to become global top-10 notebook vendor in 3Q09, says paper
Micro-Star International (MSI) will have a chance to enter the global top-10 notebook vendor list in the third quarter of 2009 as market demand for the company's notebook is turning...
Tuesday 11 August 2009
Motherboard makers see July 2009 revenues increase except ECS
Asustek Computer has posted July 2009 consolidated revenues of NT$20.13 billion (US$615 million), up 8.8% on month, but dropping 8.9% on year.
Tuesday 11 August 2009
Quanta posts drop while Wistron up in July revenues
Quanta Computer generated consolidated revenues of NT$61.96 billion (US$18.9 billion) for July 2009, down 4.8% on month, while notebook shipments also dropped from 3.3 million units...
Tuesday 11 August 2009
CPT notebook panel shipments to increase 80% by the end of 2009
LCD panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) is expected to see its notebook panel shipments increase to 900,000 units per month by the end of 2009, of which 400,000 units will be...
Monday 10 August 2009
Acer reduces 14- and 15-inch ultra-thin notebook orders, says paper
Acer has reportedly reduced its 14- and 15-inch ultra-thin notebook orders due to low market demand, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.