Some ODM notebook makers have postponed their orders for parts and components to January 2011 as their shipments have been affected by continued blizzards in Europe and the US, according...
Notebook connector maker ACES Electronics saw its revenues grow 17.01% on month to NT$370 million (US$12.26 million) in November 2010, reversing from a five-month decline. For the...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer took deliveries of 3.3-3.4 million and 2.9-3 million notebooks, respectively, from Taiwan-based makers in November, with the volumes smaller than the...
Labor shortage around Chinese New Year has become an annual problem for China's coastal manufacturers as most workers return home for the holidays. New government policies and industry...
Solid capacitor maker Feei Cherng has reportedly entered the component supply chain for Hewlett-Packard (HP) notebooks, which will increase the company's shipments in the second half...
Taiwan-based notebook and upstream components makers, which were originally set to establish plants in inland China, following Hewlett-Packard (HP), have recently started taking measures...
Compal Electronics has announced the establishment of a joint venture, Lucom Display Technology (Kunshan), in eastern China with LG Display, with a total investment of US$15 million...
Although several notebook players are still expecting performance to pick up in August and September, their upstream component partners are turning conservative as order visibility...
Notebook inventory levels in the channel in North America and Europe are currently at 5-6 weeks, higher than the normal levels of 3-4 weeks, due to weakened demand, according to notebook...
Samsung Electronics expects its monthly shipments of notebooks to increase from nearly one million units in the second quarter of 2010 to more than one million in the third, and therefore...
Despite that several IT players are already being affected by the trend of raising minimum wages, sources from component makers believe that from components to the assembly of IT...
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook maker Clevo expects to ship 470,000 notebooks in the second quarter of 2010, up 51.6% from 310,000 units shipped in the first quarter, mainly due...
As Taiwan-based notebook makers Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), Quanta Computer and Inventec have decided to establish production bases in Chongqing, China, and...
Notebook makers are unlikely to be able to shift some of their costs to upstream components suppliers in 2010 since most of the notebook components are currently in tight supply,...
