The impact of the recession combined with rising sales of smartphones will deal a setback to contract manufacturers in the global handset market, limiting the companies to less than...
Taiwan-based Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reshuffled its R&D staff to prepare for production of Sony's LCD TVs to be launched in the US market in the second half of...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reportedly fine-tuned again the release of its new notebook orders, raising the ratios of orders to Compal Electronics and Wistron, while lowering the portions...
Wanlida (Malata), a China-based maker of PCs and consumer electronics, has unveiled a self-developed Intel Classmate PC, PC-A1007, becoming the third ODM in the supply chain for the...
Japan-based notebook vendor Fujitsu has launched several new Intel Sandy Bridge-based notebooks including 15.6-inch LifeBook AH531 and LH531, 17.3-inch LifeBook NH751 in Taiwan; although...
Some smartphone vendors, such as Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Acer usually release ODM orders for outsourced production, while others including...
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...
Micro-Star International (MSI) has stepped into the production of smart robot vacuum cleaners for ODM clients and sale under its own brand FunRobot, according to the company.
Pegatron Technology has posted revenues of NT$29.22 billion (US$1.01 billion) for January 2011, down 6.3% sequentially and 14% from a year earlier due to a decline in shipments of...
The Lenovo-NEC PC joint venture is unlikely to affect current order status at the two companies' PC contract makers in Taiwan, with Micro-Star International (MSI) in particular having...
Following a 33.4% increase in revenues in 2010, the global electronic contract manufacturing industry will experience slowing growth in 2011, with sales rising by only 8.5%, according...
Notebook vendors are under the pressure of possibly increased costs for key components and ODM prices. Panel prices may rise in the second quarter of 2011 and Japan-based Elpida Memory...
Compal Communications (Compal Comm), a Taiwan-based ODM maker of handsets, will begin shipments of ARM-architecture tablet PCs to ODM clients in the first half of 2011, according...
Compal Electronics expects to ship 3.8 million tablet PCs in 2011, the largest volume among ODM makers, according to company president and CEO Ray Chen.
The LCD TV industry looked forward to reduced inventories as a result of strong sales in the fourth quarter of 2010, and based on that, had started to plan for a strong 2011. However,...
