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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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Friday 5 December 2008
Asustek reduces guidance for 2008
Asustek Computer has reduced its notebook shipments goal for 2008 from originally six million units to only 5.6-5.7 million, but the company's netbook shipment goal will remain at...
Thursday 4 December 2008
PC market will slow as financial turmoil spreads, says IDC
As the economic crisis continues to evolve – constraining GDP, consumer and commercial confidence, capital and credit availability, and creating other challenges – demand...
Thursday 4 December 2008
Notebook battery cell pricing starting to drop in December
Battery cell makers are planning to drop their prices by 5-8% in December this year following a recent fall in the global price of cobalt, an important raw material for battery cells...
Thursday 4 December 2008
Quanta expects to maintain 3Q08 shipment levels in 4Q
CC Leung, vice chairman of Quanta Computer, has relayed reports from the company's channel partners that their sales grew 3% during the Black Friday period. Although the percentage...
Thursday 4 December 2008
LCD monitor shipments flat in 3Q, says DisplaySearch
Findings from the DisplaySearch's report reveal that the third quarter LCD monitor shipments of 42.8 million units were only fractionally greater than the second quarter's results...
Thursday 4 December 2008
Several top-10 PC vendors to cut order volumes by 50% on year in 1Q09
Several top-ten PC vendors including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer and Asustek Computer are expected to reduce their PC order volumes in the first quarter of 2009 by around 50% compared...
Tuesday 2 December 2008
New Taiwan accounting standard to affect profits in PC supply chain
Although the Taiwan government has announced a delay in implementing a new accounting standard for inventory accounting, players in the PC supply chain have already started adopted...
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Top five notebook vendors expected to combine for shipments of more than 125 million units in 2009
Despite an uncertain economic outlook for 2009, global notebook shipments from the top five notebook vendors – Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Dell, Toshiba and Asustek Computer...
Monday 1 December 2008
JP Morgan expects global PC shipments to drop 5% in 2009, says paper
JP Morgan has lowered its global PC shipment growth forecast for 2009 to a 5% decline, with the first three quarters next year all seeing negative growth, according to the Chinese-language...
Monday 1 December 2008
Asustek expects IT market to recover in 3Q09, says paper
Affected by the weak global economy, Asustek Computer is conservative about its performance in the first half of 2009, but it expects demand in the IT market to recover in the third...
Friday 28 November 2008
Intel denies rumored Calpella platform delay, says paper
Due to the price of Intel's current Centrino 2 notebook platform being too high – making it difficult for vendors to drop their notebook pricing – sources at notebook...
Friday 28 November 2008
Goldman Sachs trims 4Q08 notebook shipment growth to 1%, says paper
A latest report from Goldman Sachs has reduced its forecast on quarterly notebook shipment growth in the fourth quarter of 2008 from 6% to only 1%, while shipments in the first quarter...
Friday 28 November 2008
Toshiba to increase 2009 purchases from Taiwan by 20%, says paper
Toshiba is expected to increase its annual purchases from Taiwan in 2009 by 20% on year, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report citing market wat...
Wednesday 26 November 2008
Taiwan market: HP to launch Compaq Mini Q nettop with dual-core Atom processor
Hewlett-Packard (HP) will launch the Compaq Mini Q nettop featuring Intel's dual-core Atom processor during IT Month 2008 in Taiwan, Nov 29 - Dec 7, according to the company.
Wednesday 26 November 2008
Gigabyte discusses performance in 2008; to launch 3.5G netbooks next year
Although Gigabyte Technology recently reduced its annual motherboard shipments goal from 20 million to 19 million units, shipments from the company's branded segment will still reach...