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Wednesday 2 November 2011
Quanta, Compal face labor shortages in Chongqing
Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics have sent employees from factories in eastern China to support their factories in Chongqing City, western China, due to short supply of labor,...
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Notebook upstream players suffer from labor and electricity shortage in Chongqing
Notebook upstream players that have investments in Chongqing, China - including component and notebook makers - are facing labor and electricity shortages in the city and the issues...
Thursday 30 June 2011
HP, Acer, Asustek to raise supply proportion from Chongqing in 2H11
Global notebook brand vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer are set to significantly increase their notebook supply proportions from Chongqing, China in the second half of 2011 with...
Friday 17 June 2011
Inland cities of China facing labor shortage
Although most Taiwan-based notebook makers and related component makers are establishing new production lines in inland (Western) China to resolve their employee shortage issues,...
Thursday 12 May 2011
Shortage of smartphone and tablet PC components emerging
Despite both upstream and downstream PC and smartphone players claiming to have not seen any component shortages and that they will see normal supplies until the end of May 2011,...
Thursday 12 May 2011
Supply chain may not be able to satisfy demand from Apple
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reportedly facing a shortage of both labor and materials at its plants...
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Southeast Asia may become production hub in the future
Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacture's Association has recently released an investigation report for investment risk and environment of Southeast Asia and India in hoping...
Thursday 24 March 2011
PSU maker AcBel saw revenues increase, but gross margin drop in 2010
Taiwan-based power supply unit (PSU) maker AcBel Polytech has announced consolidated revenues of NT$22.08 billion (US$745.82 million) for 2010, up 24.19% on year; however, the company's...
Friday 4 March 2011
Passive component maker Thinking posts over 30% drop in February sales
Taiwan-based passive component maker Thinking Electronic Industrial has announced consolidated revenues of NT$238 million (US$8 million) for February 2011, down 35.8% sequentially...
Wednesday 16 February 2011
Taiwan labor shortage hits 5-year high, says job bank
Labor shortage in Taiwan has hit a five-year high with vacant positions exceeding the number of job seekers by about 460,000, according to 104 Job Bank, a local job finder web serv...
Wednesday 16 February 2011
Notebook component makers rather than ODMs facing labor shortages
Notebook ODMs in China have not suffered labor shortages since the end of the 2011 Lunar New Year, but makers of components/materials have, according to industry sources.
Thursday 10 February 2011
IT players in China competing for talent
IT players in China recently started to compete for talent as labor shortages in 2011 are becoming a lot more serious than in previous years. In addition to competition between coastal...
Thursday 10 February 2011
Notebook component makers waste efforts hiring extra manpower for the holidays
As Intel's defective chip incident caused notebook brands and makers to delay their orders for new models to the second quarter, Taiwan-based notebook component makers, which had...
Wednesday 9 February 2011
Wistron appropriates manpower from western China to solve labor shortages in eastern China
Taiwan-based notebook maker Wistron has appropriated about 3,000 employees from its plant in Chengdu City, western China, through the city government's assistance, to support its...
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Post-holidays will be the most serious period for labor shortages
Despite downstream notebook makers have recently begun to send employees to assist their upstream component makers, sources from upstream component makers pointed out that the best...