Global notebook shipments will likely slip below 200 million units in 2022, due to a particularly weak second half of the year, according to sources at brand companies.
Brand notebook vendors have turned aggressive in launching price cuts to promote sales and digest inventories, particularly in the euro zone, China and North America, where consumer...
Notebook ODMs are bracing for a particularly weak second half of 2022 due to weaker-than-expected gaming and commercial notebook product sales, according to industry sources. Whether...
Wintel notebook sales may be affected negatively by weak consumer sentiment and the launch of new Apple MacBooks in the second half of 2022, according to industry sources.
As a whole, the notebook market has seen a reversal in demand, with consumer models bearing the brunt of sales downturn. Shipments of education-use Chromebooks, which played a pioneering...
The global supply of notebook computers has already outpaced demand, according to Acer chairman and CEO Jason Chen. Whether the situation will worsen in the second half of 2022 is...
Taiwan's notebook ODMs Quanta Computer and Inventec both have released positive outlook for their shipment performance in the second half of the year, though some market observers...
Most brand notebook vendors have slashed their shipment goals for the first half of 2022 by double-digits, and may cut back their orders with some suppliers for the period by as much...
Server-use chips and components remain in extremely tight supply, and their shortage will be more severe than that of notebook components and may stay unresolved through the end of...
Taiwan-based IC design houses are striving to reach long-term supply agreements with their notebook customers to support the order commitments required by their foundry partners,...
Notebook ODMs now still see their shipments fall short of orders by 20% as their production remains constrained by persistently tight supply of power management ICs (PMICs), MOSFETs...
Global notebook shipments reached 247 million units in 2021, an increase of more than 20% over 2020. The annual growth rate was slightly less than that of 2020, but there was a net...
