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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...
Tuesday 9 December 2008
Nvidia chipset support to come for Intel Atom nettops
Intel and Nvidia will join forces to enable Nvidia chipset support to the Atom platform in order to enhance graphics performance, according to sources at PC vendors.
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

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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...
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
MSI netbooks featuring Intel MID platform to be showcased at CES
Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to showcase its 10.2-inch Wind Notebook U110 and U115 models, which adopt Intel Intel's Menlow platform for mobile Internet devices (MID), at...
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...
Wednesday 3 December 2008
VIA sees drop on November revenues
VIA Technologies' revenues in November were NT$412 million (US$12.29 million), drops of 35.54% on month and 44.02% on year, while the company's combined revenues for the first 11...
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Chicony claims dominance in netbook components market
Chicony Electronics, a Taiwan-based maker of PC components, has become a main supplier of keyboards, adaptors, webcam modules and other components used in netbooks for Asustek Computer,...
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Commentary: Growing popularity of low-cost PCs bad for DRAM makers
Over the past few years, DRAM makers had been expanding capacity aggressively on industries' positive estimates of how the Windows Vista operating system would stimulate market demand...
Monday 1 December 2008
BenQ launches 10.1-inch netbook
BenQ has launched its Joybook Lite U101 netbook featuring a 10.1-inch 16:9 screen with LED backlight unit (BLU).
Monday 1 December 2008
Cooling module maker Sunon benfiting from netbooks, says paper
Although most of current netbooks do not feature cooling design, Taiwan-based cooling module maker Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industrial (Sunon) has noted that the company has landed...