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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 11 July 2008
MSI sees increase while ECS sees drop in June revenues
Micro-Star International's (MSI's) June revenues increased to NT$7.42 billion (US$243.9 million), rises of 21.79% on month and 14.9% on year on the back of increasing notebook ship...
Thursday 10 July 2008
Pixel Qi eyes Taiwan
Mary Lou Jepsen, the former chief technology officer for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) recently visited Taiwan looking to raise money for her new company Pixel Qi, while also laying...
Thursday 10 July 2008
Asustek and Gigabyte announce June performance figures
Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$19.3 billion (US$634.78 million) for June 2008, an slight increase of 6% on month and a large increase of 40% on year. However,...
Thursday 10 July 2008
Compal sees drops in June and 1H08 revenues
Affected by a high proportion of barebone shipments, chassis material shortages and increasing costs from component makers, Compal Electronics' consolidated revenues in June only reached...
Thursday 10 July 2008
HIT penetrates notebook digital microphone market
With its technology experience in microphone production, Taiwan-based Human Interface Technologies (HIT) said its microphone solutions have been validated by major first-tier notebook...
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Quanta, Wistron and Inventec see on-year growth in 1H revenues
Quanta Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$62.01 billion (US$2.04 billion) for June 2008, a decrease of 3.9% on month, while accumulated consolidated revenues for the...
Tuesday 8 July 2008
First-tier notebook makers expect sequential shipments boost of 15-20% in 3Q08
First-tier notebook makers including Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron all expect notebook shipments in the third quarter to see a sequential increase of 15-20%, according...
Monday 7 July 2008
Quanta leading notebook makers in vertical integration, says paper
Of the first-tier notebook makers, Quanta Computer has made the most progress toward building its vertical integration over the last few years, according to a Chinese-language Apply...
Thursday 3 July 2008
GMT said to be seeing a rebound in the notebook market
While some Taiwan IC design houses are reportedly expected to see weaker June sales amid a PC component inventory correction in June, notebook component IC design house Global Mixed-mode...
Thursday 3 July 2008
Atom shortage may affect low-cost notebook panel shipments in July
LCD panel makers are afraid that a shortage of Intel Atom processors may affect their July shipments of 7- to 10-inch panels targeted to the low-cost notebook and MID (mobile Internet...
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Notebook vendors to cut panel orders in July
Due to a slow second quarter this year, the worldwide top-three notebook vendors are reported to have not met their shipments goal, creating and overstock of components. Therefore...
Monday 30 June 2008
Sunrex to ship 46-48 million notebook keyboards in 2008
Taiwan-based keyboard maker Sunrex Technology expects its shipments of notebook keyboards to top 46-48 million units in 2008 compared to 34 million units shipped in 2007.
Monday 30 June 2008
IC distributors forecast demand from notebooks to outgrow handsets in 2H08
Citing order pull-in status, Professional Computer Technology (PCT), believes that IC demand from notebooks should be better than handsets in the second half of 2008, with limited...
Friday 27 June 2008
Quanta remained number one notebook OEM in 1Q08, says DisplaySearch
DisplaySearch has released its Quarterly Notebook PC Value Chain Report for the first quarter of 2008 showing that Quanta Computer was the top notebook PC OEM maker, and Hewlett-Packard...
Friday 27 June 2008
Toshiba aims to grab back 15% worldwide notebook market share in 2010
Toshiba has set a goal to achieve a worldwide notebook market share of 15% in 2010. The company will focus on targeting emerging markets including China, Vietnam and Thailand, which...