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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
Friday 17 October 2008
Notebook players paying close attention to multi-touch technology
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is planning to stir up the touch panel notebook market with multi-touch technology at the end of this year, and with Windows 7, which according to Microsoft will...
Thursday 16 October 2008
Samsung enters the US notebook and netbook market
Samsung Electronics America has announced its entrance in the US notebook market with a product lineup including notebooks in four categories – premium thin and light, all purpose,...
Thursday 16 October 2008
Asustek plans to launch touch panel notebooks in 1H09
Asustek Computer is planning to launch notebooks featuring a touch panel in the first or second quarter of 2009, according to sources at panel makers, in addition to Eee PCs as previously...
Wednesday 15 October 2008
HP said to be threatening notebook OEMs against dealing with Asustek
The leading notebook vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is said to be demanding that its manufacturing partners refuse outsourcing orders from Asustek, according to sources at notebook makers...
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Motherboard makers see positive revenue growth in September
Asustek Computer announced consolidated revenues of NT$30.3 billion (US$936.2 million) in September, representing growth of 17% on month and 42% on year, and being a new historical...
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Compal to become the biggest notebook supplier for Toshiba in 2009, says paper
With Toshiba completing its plan for notebook outsourcing in 2009, the title of the biggest supplier will pass from Inventec to Compal Electronics, which is expected to have estimated...
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Quanta to share Sony notebook orders with Foxconn
Quanta Computer has won orders from Sony to ship C-Series notebooks to the Japanese vendor starting in 2009, according to market sources. Sony has split the orders between Quanta...
Monday 13 October 2008
Compal sees strong revenues growth in September
Compal Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$46.25 billion (US$1.43 billion) for September, increases of 32.23% on month and 10% on year, thanks to shipments of Dell's...
Monday 13 October 2008
Clevo saw large on-year performance increase in September, says paper
Second-tier notebook maker Clevo has announced revenues of NT$1.76 billion (US$54.31 million) for September 2008, a slight increase of 0.6% on month but a large increase of 43.78%...
Thursday 9 October 2008
PCB maker HannStar Board maintaining high utilization rates despite expanding capacity; September sales reach NT$2.1 billion
Although the peak season effect for the notebook market was not as good as expected this year, notebook PCB maker HannStar Board reported record consolidated sales of NT$2.12 billion...
Thursday 9 October 2008
Notebooks shipping with Intel Echo Peak WiMAX
Sprint's mobile WiMAX business unit, XOHM, recently launched its WiMAX service in Baltimore, and Intel has announced that it is now shipping its combined WiMAX/Wi-Fi module, formerly...
Thursday 9 October 2008
Taiwan notebook Quanta revenues flat, while Wistron and Inventec see stronger September revenues
While first-tier notebook maker Quanta Computer saw its notebook shipments, including netbooks, increase 6.5% to 3.3 million units in September from 3.1 million units in August, the...
Thursday 9 October 2008
Acer surpasses HP and Dell over worldwide notebook shipment in September
Acer has shipped 3.4-3.6 million notebooks (including netbooks) in September this year, beating both Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Asustek increases notebook shipments goal for 2008; sets sights on Dell and Lenovo
Asustek Computer expects to ship 50,000 units of its recently launched Eee PC S101 this month which will contribute around US$35 million toward company revenues. The notebook maker...
Tuesday 7 October 2008
Asustek officially launches Eee PC S101 and N10 notebooks
Asustek Computer has officially launched the high-end Eee PC S101 and N10 notebook series. The S101 and N10 both feature a 10.2-inch panel and are powered by Intel Atom processors.