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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 26 May 2009
MediaTek eyeing China white-box notebook market
MediaTek, following its success tapping the white-box handset market in China, is planning to promote its TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, GPS and Bluetooth chips and other handset IC solutions to...
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Wistron makes Lenovo ultra-thin notebook and 12.1-inch netbook, says paper
Wistron is the manufacturer of Lenovo's new 13.3-inch CULV-based ultra-thin notebook and 12.1-inch Nvidia Ion-based netbook, according to a Chinese-language Apply Daily re...
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Compal chairman optimistic upcoming peak season will drive up demand
Taiwan's IT industry will still see a traditional hot sales season in the third quarter of 2009 despite the unfavorable global economic climate. As in previous years, companies will...
Monday 25 May 2009
APCB supplying small PCBs for CULV notebooks
Advence Printed Circuit Board (APCB) has received small traditional PCB orders for CULV notebooks. APCB began volume shipments in April, with Wistron one of its major customers, said...
Friday 22 May 2009
Wintek to supply panel modules for upcoming Apple e-book form factor netbook
Wintek has been selected as the panel module supplier for Apple's upcoming e-book form factor netbook product, according to Taiwan notebook related IC designers.
Friday 22 May 2009
Ultra-thin notebook proportion to reach 20%, says Acer manager
Acer expects CULV-based ultra-thin notebooks will account for around 20% of its total notebook shipments in the future as consumer reaction toward the product line are mostly positive,...
Thursday 21 May 2009
Optical drive issue reported in Acer 15.6-inch ultra-thin notebook
The optical drive of Acer's upcoming 15.6-inch CULV-based ultra-thin notebook, which is manufactured by Wistron, reportedly had a defect that could have caused the drive to stop running,...
Thursday 21 May 2009
Clevo suffers losses in 1Q09
Clevo suffered net losses of around NT$85 million (US$2.59 million) in the first quarter of 2009 due to a decline in notebook demand and costs from opening a new retail store in Beijing,...
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Taiwan notebooks – 1Q 2009
Taiwan shipped 27.4 million notebook and netbook PCs in the first quarter of 2009, down 19.6% sequentially but up 1.3% from the same period one year earlier.
Tuesday 19 May 2009
China market: Acer to work with China Mobile for 13.3-inch CULV notebook bundles
Acer is reportedly cooperating with China-based telecom provider China Mobile to bundle its 13.3-inch CULV notebooks with mobile telecom subscriptions, according to market sources.
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Notebook component shortage likely to get worse in 2H09, says Inventec
The supply of key notebook components may continue to worsen in the second half of 2009 leading to increasing costs, according to Alexander Hsu, president of Inventec's finance division...
Monday 18 May 2009
Pegatron expected to see 20-30% sequential revenue increase in 3Q09
Pegatron Technology's revenues in the third quarter of 2009 are expected to increase 20-30% sequentially as the company will start shipping notebook, netbook and nettop orders to global...
Monday 18 May 2009
AMD to showcase new notebook platform at Computex 2009, says paper
AMD plans to showcase its new notebook platform (Tigris) at Computex 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. The new platform consists a 45nm dual-core...
Monday 18 May 2009
ECS reports profits for 1Q09
First-tier motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) benefited from increasing notebook shipments and cost-reductions in the first-quarter and has announced consolidated...
Friday 15 May 2009
Inventec forecasts notebook shipments to grow 10-15% sequentially in 2Q09, says chairman
Inventec expects its notebook shipments to grow 10-15% sequentially to 4.95-5.2 million units in the second quarter, according to company chairman Richard Lee. However, Lee is conservative...