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Monday 24 June 2013
Quanta targets 3S as the new business directions
Quanta Computer is targeting the 3S - software, system and solution - as the company's new business directions for the future and is set to bring the revenue contribution of its notebook...
Friday 21 June 2013
Commentary: Foxconn faces more labor problems
To show the importance of labor rights, Apple became the first IT company to join the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in 2012 and through the association, Apple began inspections of...
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
Taiwan-based networking/communication device maker Accton Technology has received ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October 2013, according to the company.
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Netronix aims to become largest e-book reader ODM in 3 years, says paper
Taiwan-based Netronix shipped about two million e-book readers for a global market share of 10% in 2012 and aims to hike its share to 15-20% in 2013, 25-30% in 2014, and 35-40% in...
Thursday 13 June 2013
Notebook ODMs bracing for price war
Notebook brand vendors have recently started the request-for-quotation (RFQ) process for 2014 orders. But because of the notebook industry's weak shipments and Lenovo increasing in-house...
Thursday 23 May 2013
Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
Dennis van Schie, global head of marketing for Sony Mobile, has commented that the firm will extend cooperation and view ODM firms as strategic partners in product development to...
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Wistron expected to become largest ODM for BlackBerry in 2013
Wistron has taken over BlackBerry's R&D staff of about 100 members based in Chicago and is expected to undertake production of 50-60% of the vendor's smartphones launched in 2013,...
Friday 3 May 2013
Taiwan makers struggle to benefit from fast growing cloud computing storage market
While global demand for cloud computing-based storage has been growing fast, it is difficult for Taiwan-based hardware makers to enjoy such business opportunities because cloud computing-based...
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Lenovo seeking help from Taiwan ODMs for the server industry
With Lenovo reportedly talking with IBM about the the acquisition of IBM's server business, sources from the upstream supply chain pointed out that the China-based vendor has already...
Tuesday 26 March 2013
ODMs see weaker profits from tablet business
As Google and Amazon reportedly will release their next-generation 7-inch entry-level tablets in the near future, sources from the upstream supply chain have estimated that related...
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Amazon said to be considering taking back Kindle Fire purchasing rights
Amazon reportedly plans to change its component purchasing strategy for Kindle Fire and will make all the decisions itself instead of relying on ODMs, according to sources from the...
Friday 1 March 2013
Commentary: Entering the entry-level tablet competition a must for ODMs
Although some upstream supply chain players do not think notebook ODMs should join the entry-level tablet competition because of profitability concerns, it seems a neccessary step...
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Competition over entry-level tablets may hurt ODMs
As Compal Electronics and Wistron are competing aggressively over orders for Acer's upcoming 8- and 10-inch entry-level tablet devices, sources from the upstream supply chain are...
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 4Q12 notebook ODM shipments up on quarter, down on year
Taiwan-based ODMs shipped 43.69 million notebooks in fourth-quarter 2012, increasing 2.5% sequentially but decreasing 3.0% on year, with their global market share reaching 90.1%,...
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Samsung unlikely to increase notebook ODM orders in 2013, say Taiwan makers
In response to reports that Samsung Electronics plans to increase notebook ODM orders to Taiwan in 2013, Taiwan-based supply chain makers indicated that this is quite unlikely since...