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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.
IN THE NEWS
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Quanta and Compal see on-year revenues decline, while Wistron and Inventec see growth in November
Quanta Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$68.32 billion (US$2.04 billion) for November 2008, drops of 6.9% on month and 19% on year. The company's total consolidated...
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Netbook shipments surge over 160% in 3Q08, say DisplaySearch
Despite what is looking to be a rather dismal fourth quarter for the PC industry as a whole, one very bright spot has emerged. The mini-note PC, also called netbook, category grew...
Monday 8 December 2008
LCD panel prices continue to drop in December
With demand for LCD applications expected to decrease in December, LCD panel prices are estimated to continue to drop in December, according to market sources.
Monday 8 December 2008
BenQ targets 5% share of global netbook market in 2009, says paper
BenQ is targeting to gain 5% a share of the 2009 global netbook market, which is expected to reach a shipments scale of 35 million units, according to a Chinese-language Apply...
Monday 8 December 2008
Taiwan notebooks – 3Q 2008
Taiwan shipped 39.0 million notebook PCs in the third quarter of 2008, up 33.6% sequentially and up 51.9% from the same period one year earlier.
Friday 5 December 2008
Acer chairman still optimistic about 4Q08 and 2009 notebook shipments
Despite that the current financial outlook is weakening, Acer chairman JT Wang still believes the economy is not as bad as it looks and is optimistic about the company's shipments...
Friday 5 December 2008
AMD global notebook market share might drop below 10% next year due to netbooks
As Intel Atom processor shipments continue to increase, while AMD has yet to come up with an official netbook platform of its own, AMD's share of the global notebook market might drop...
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...