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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 12 March 2009
Wistron sees 29% on-year revenue growth in February
Wistron has announced consolidated revenues of NT$32.8 billion (US$951 million) for February 2009, a slight drop of 3.58% on month, but an increase of 29% on year.
Thursday 12 March 2009
Notebook makers in channel price war, say IC distributors
Notebook manufacturers Compal Electronics, Quanta Computer and Inventec have recently slashed prices significantly, in order to vie for orders from the channel, according to sources...
Thursday 12 March 2009
Compal to break notebook shipments goal of 6.2 million units for 1Q09, says president
Compal Electronics expects to break its notebook shipments goal of 6.2 million units for the first quarter of 2009, according to company president, Ray Chen.
Thursday 12 March 2009
LGD gears up development of 120Hz and full HD notebook panels
LG Display (LGD), which has beaten Samsung Electronics to become the world's largest notebook panel supplier, is gearing up the development of notebook applications supporting 120Hz...
Thursday 12 March 2009
Asustek reportedly considering merger of Eee PC and notebook departments
Asustek Computer is considering consolidating its Eee PC and notebook departments to help increase efficiency and decrease the management costs for the two departments, according to...
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Clevo aims to ship 300,000 netbooks in 2009
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook maker Clevo has landed an ODM order for netbooks from a telecom carrier in Portugal, and has set a goal of shipping 300,000 netbooks in 2009, according...
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Taiwan notebooks – 4Q 2008
Taiwan shipped 34.04 million notebook PCs in the fourth quarter of 2008, down 3.6% sequentially but up 17.4% from the same period one year earlier.
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Asustek, Pegatron and Gigabyte see revenues decline in February
First-tier motherboard makers and vendors Asustek Computer, Pegatron Technology and Gigabyte Technology all saw revenues decline on year in February this year, according to market...
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Quanta and Compal notebook shipments tied in February
First-tier notebook makers Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics saw their notebook (netbooks included) shipments tied at 2.2 million units in February this year, according to figures...
Monday 9 March 2009
SiS to benefit from notebook rush orders, says paper
Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has recently placed large volume of extra orders with United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) to fulfill a shortage of its M672 chipsets for low-price...
Monday 9 March 2009
Acer and Inventec see revenues up in February
Taiwan-based notebook players Acer and Inventec both saw revenue growth in February with help from recent rush orders, according to sources at the companies.
Monday 9 March 2009
Notebook PCB makers see increased utilization rate and sales in February thanks to strong netbook demand
Demand for notebook PCBs has been gaining momentum, especially for netbooks PCBs, thanks to rush orders and inventory buildup from customers. Taiwan's leading notebook PCB makers Gold...
Monday 9 March 2009
Intel to work with Compal and SiS for China white-box notebook market, says paper
Intel will cooperate with notebook maker Compal Electronics and chipset maker Silicon Integrated System (SiS) to launch 12- to 14-inch white-box notebooks, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 6 March 2009
Acer, HP, Dell and Lenovo included in China stimulus program, Asustek rejected
Four out of the top-five branded PC vendors – Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo and Acer – have been listed as branded PC products eligible for subsidies under the China...
Friday 6 March 2009
Unimicron enters notebook PCB market through China subsidiary
Chuan-Chuang (transliterated from Chinese) Technology, a subsidiary of Unimicron Technology located in Hunan, China, plans to enter volume production of 6-8-layer notebook PCBs in...