Mainly because Taiwan-based notebook ODMs have been accelerating the process of shifting production to plants in Chongqing and Chengdu, in western China, the factories of ODMs and...
China continues to increase minimum wages but labor shortages along the coast continue sending the notebook supply chain moving inward to central China. The lack of labor is notebook...
Due to strong market demand, Apple's iPhone 5 orders rose significantly from only 8-10 million units in September to 14-16 million units in October, a growth close to 60%, and the...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer have reportedly notified their upstream supply chain partners that they will raise their Chongqing, China, plants' shipment proportions to 60% in 2013...
Compal Electronics expects its notebook shipments to achieve a sequential growth of a double-digit percentage in the third quarter with the volume to continue rising in the fourth,...
With China's labor shortage issues seriously impacting notebook makers' shipment performance in June, notebook makers are concerned that the problem will only become more serious...
As Apple's new MacBooks are expected to launch in the near future, related upstream supply chain players are reportedly facing labor shortages because of strong orders from Apple,...
As the labor shortage in Eastern China (coastal area) is turning worse and the summer season when powers shortages are common is approaching, notebook component supply in the second...
As Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has recently revealed it will raise its minimal salary 16-25%, supply chain players pointed out that Foxconn's salary rise is making...
Foxconn Electronics's (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, Chongqing and Zhengzhou, China have all reportedly seen over 90% of their employees return to work after the...
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), despite being named a fear factory by the US media, still attracted large amounts of people in China looking for work, and the company's...
As total notebook shipments from Chongqing, China increased to 15.74 million units in 2011 with production volume also growing more than 1,000 fold to US$5.15 billion, Acer and Hewlett-Packard...
China has always given the impression of having a large and cheap labor force. But as the country's population structure and social values are starting to change, Foxconn Electronics...
With new equipment being installed and capacity to expand, inductor manufacturer Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics is expected to post an over 20% sales growth in 2012, according to...
PC production lines located in Yangtze River Delta in eastern China and Pearl River Delta in southeastern China as well as Chongqing and Chengdu, in western China, have recently seen...
