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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 2 July 2009
Quanta expected to ship over 3 million notebooks in June
Quanta Computer is expected to ship around 3.3 million notebooks in June, up 43% from 2.3 million units in May thanks to orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo and Apple, according...
Thursday 2 July 2009
Intel Calpella and Windows 7 to slow down notebook demand in 3Q09
Demand for notebooks is expected to drop significantly in the third quarter due to consumers waiting for Intel's next-generation Calpella platform to be launched in September, and...
Thursday 2 July 2009
Windows 7 will not help SSD sales much, say notebook vendors
Windows 7's support for SSDs will not do much to boost sales because the price gap with HDDs is still too high, according to sources at notebook vendors.
Thursday 2 July 2009
LG Chemical ranks first for global large-size LCD polarizer in 1Q09, says Displaybank
LG Chemical ranked first in the global large-size TFT-LCD polarizer market with a 30% share in the first quarter of 2009, according to Displaybank. Japan-based Nitto Denko was second...
Thursday 2 July 2009
Component makers optimistic ultra-thin notebooks will boost sales
Notebook component makers are optimistic about the business potential of ultra-thin notebooks and expect the products to increase their revenues in the third quarter, according to...
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Weltrend readies to ship motor drivers for notebooks
Microcontroller unit (MCU) design house Weltrend Semiconductor is sampling its three-phase motor drivers for notebook applications with customers, with volume shipments slated for...
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Driver IC designer ILI says margin improved in 2Q09
ILI Technology has estimated a gross margin of 20-25% for the second quarter, up from 18% in the first. The LCD driver IC designer said it expects clearer order visibility through...
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Over 90% of Radiant notebook BLUs to be LED by end of 2009
Taiwan-based Radiant Opto-Electronics expects LED backlight units (BLUs) to account for over 90% of its total notebook BLU shipments by the end of 2009, according to the company.
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Netbooks to make head start in adopting touch panels, suppliers say
Touch panel makers believe that netbooks will make a head start in adopting touch panels to utilize the Windows 7 operating system (OS), compared to regular notebooks and LCD monitors,...
Monday 29 June 2009
First-tier notebook makers to transfer connector orders away from Foxconn, says paper
First-tier notebook makers are starting to transfer their connector orders from Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to other Taiwan-based connector makers to counter Foxconn's...
Monday 29 June 2009
Quanta and Inventec to benefit from expanding HP orders, says paper
Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer and Inventec are expected to benefit from Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) recent increase in notebook orders, according to a Chinese-language...
Monday 29 June 2009
FPCB shipments for LED light bars rising
Flexium Interconnect and Career Technology have indicated that demand for flexible PCBs (FPCBs) used in LED light bars is increasing as almost all new notebook models launched in the...
Monday 29 June 2009
Shuttle rumored to be looking at notebook market
Shuttle is rumored to be considering entering notebook market following the recruitment of Elitegroup Computer Systems' (ECS') ex-president of notebook business as its new president,...
Monday 29 June 2009
ECS drops notebook shipment guidance to four million units for 2009
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) shipped around 1.6 million notebooks in the first half of 2009 and expects annual shipments to reach four million units, down from its previous forecast...
Friday 26 June 2009
Gateway debuts new notebooks and a netbook
Gateway has debuted its new NV series entertainment notebooks that pair the latest notebook technologies and one-touch buttons at an affordable price as well as its new AMD-based 11.6-inch...