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Monday 4 July 2011
Notebook vendors take back chassis purchasing rights from ODMs
Global first-tier notebook vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Dell and Asustek Computer have all recently retrieved back their purchasing rights for notebook chassis from their notebook...
Monday 4 July 2011
Intel paying handsomely to attract downstream vendors into launching Ultrabooks
Intel has recently started planning a new marketing strategy for its Ultrabook concept and has invested heavily into the related budget and resources hoping to attract first-tier...
Thursday 23 June 2011
Ultra-thin notebooks to boost demand for lithium-polymer batteries
Market demand for lithium-polymer batteries, which are used mainly in products such as tablet PCs or notebooks with ultra-thin designs, is expected to increase significantly as ultra-thin...
Thursday 9 June 2011
Asustek to sell new ultra-thin notebook at a price US$100 cheaper than MacBook Air
Taiwan-based notebook brand vendor Asustek Computer, which showcased its latest ultra-thin 11.6-inch UX21 notebook at Computex 2011, is expected to set the model's price at US$100...
Thursday 2 June 2011
Taiwan Glass to produce glass for touch panels
Taiwan-based Taiwan Glass Group is set to produce glass for touch panels due to the increasing demand for smartphones and tablet PCs. Sales of fiber glass account for 40% of total...
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Computex 2011: Shuriken-panel notebooks make their debut
Notebook models with Shuriken ultra-thin panel technology debuted at Computex 2011 with Taiwan-based Compal Electronics and Acer as well as some of Compal's downstream partners such...
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Compal expects 3Q11 shipments to follow seasonal patterns, says president
Compal Electronics' overall notebook shipments for the third quarter of 2011 will likely increase 10-15% sequentially, according to Ray Chen, president of the company. The anticipated...
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Computex 2011: SanDisk intros new SSD with SATA3 interface
SanDisk has introduced two new solid state drives (SSDs) for the mobile computing market – the U100 series for ultra-thin notebooks and the i100 targeted at tablet PCs –...
Thursday 26 May 2011
Shuttle lands Android tablet PC orders from China-based Hasee
Mini-PC and notebook maker Shuttle has recently landed orders for Android-based tablet PCs from China-based brand vendor Hasee, according to sources from upstream component makers;...
Thursday 19 May 2011
Taiwan market: Lenovo launches enterprise notebooks
China-based Lenovo, on May 18, launched its new enterprise-based ThinkPad X, T and Edge series notebooks in Taiwan, while the company pointed out that its new ultra-thin notebook...
Thursday 12 May 2011
MSI to launch 2 new tablet PCs at Computex 2011
Micro-Star International (MSI) is set to announce two new tablet PCs – the WindPad 100A, adopting Google Android 3.0 and Nvidia Tegra 2, and WindPad 110W, adopting AMD's Brazos...
Monday 25 April 2011
Acer to launch notebook with ultra-thin Shuriken panel from LG
Taiwan-based notebook brand Acer is set to launch a 14.1-inch notebook featuring LG Display's ultra-thin Shuriken panel as soon as May 2011 and the model will be manufactured by Compal...
Thursday 7 April 2011
Taiwan market: Acer announces new Timeline notebooks; aims to sell 6 million units
Acer has announced its third-generation Timeline notebooks featuring Intel's Sandy Bridge processor and ultra-thin industrial design in Taiwan and the company is aiming to sell six...
Thursday 3 March 2011
Acer takes less than 2 weeks to restock Intel Sandy Bridge notebooks
Acer took less than two weeks to re-produce notebooks with fixed Intel Sandy Bridge chipsets and ship them to retail channels worldwide; leading all other global brands, mainly due...
Thursday 24 February 2011
HP unsatisfactory performance to impact Taiwan upstream supply chain
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced revenues of US$32.3 billion during the period from November of 2010 to January of 2011, lower than market watchers' expectations of US$32.9 billion,...