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Taiwan notebook ODMs
Taiwan notebook Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) account for more than 90% of global notebook production and Digitimes is there to provide daily updates on shipments, supplier contracts and financial data on the more than 10 Taiwan makers involved in notebook manufacturing.
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Tuesday 20 January 2015
Notebook panel pricing drops in mid-January
Notebook panel pricing has dropped 1-2% as of mid-January, with 14- and 15.6-inch units seeing the biggest declines, according to statistics compiled by DisplaySearch.
Thursday 15 January 2015
Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments in 4Q14 over 46 million units
There were an estimated 46.059 million notebooks shipped globally during the fourth quarter of 2014, increasing by 3.1% on quarter and remaining unchanged on year, according to Digitimes...
Monday 12 January 2015
China notebook component makers halt capacity expansion, say Taiwan makers
China-based notebook component makers have temporarily stopped expansion of production capacities due to continual wage hikes and short supply of labor in China, according to Taiwan-based...
Friday 9 January 2015
Inventec notebook shipments down, Wistron up in December
Inventec shipped 1.4 million notebooks in December, slipping on month by 200,000 units, while Wistron's notebook shipments for the month totaled two million units, up from November's...
Thursday 8 January 2015
Good Way Technology to expand capacity for docking stations
Taiwan-based notebook USB docking station maker Good Way Technology plans to invest NT$700 million (US$21.86 million) to expand its plants in Kunshan, China and construction on the...
Thursday 8 January 2015
Notebook supply chain building up inventories to minimize impact from labor shortage
To avoid a labor shortage caused by the Lunar New Year holidays from impacting their shipments, notebook component suppliers have been building up their inventories recently with...
Monday 5 January 2015
Quanta plastic chassis subsidiary cutting capacity due to weak notebook shipments
Quanta Computer's plastic chassis manufacturing subsidiary has recently started reducing its production capacity in response to declining notebook shipments, according to Quanta Co...
Monday 29 December 2014
Wistron to make investment in telematics device maker
Notebook ODM Wistron has decided to step into the telematics segment by committing investment in Taiwan-based Join-link International Technology, which focuses on production of car...
Monday 29 December 2014
Acer ranks as top consumer notebook vendor in Brazil in 3Q14
Acer has said that it ranked as the top vendor for consumer notebooks in Brazil in the third quarter of 2014, accounting for 16.2% market share and registering 18.6% on-quarter growth...
Friday 26 December 2014
Notebook panel pricing declines 1% throughout mid-December, says DisplaySearch
Entering the traditional slow season, notebook panel demand is slowing in December. Some mobile brands' set inventories are piling up in the channel as some prepare for the Chinese...
Thursday 25 December 2014
Digitimes Research: Sub-US$300 15.6-inch Chromebooks to fuel notebook competition in 1Q15
In addition to Acer, which is set to launch a Broadwell-U-based 15.6-inch Chromebook in March 2015, Dell is planning to launch a 15.6-inch Chromebook with similar specifications in...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China government tightens tax incentives, subsidies to enterprises
China's State Council has recently ordered its local governments to fully re-inspect their existing subsidy and tax-cut programs for enterprises and they will also need to receive...
Monday 22 December 2014
Taiwan, China notebook vendors halt notebook sales in Russia, report says
Asustek Computer, Acer, Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology and Lenovo have stopped selling their notebooks in Russia as they have been suffering losses due to a free...
Friday 19 December 2014
Notebook orders from Russia decreasing, say Taiwan ODMs
Notebook orders from channel retailers and regional brands in Russia have been decreasing due to impacts of the Russian rouble's drastic devaluation, according to Taiwan-based ODMs...
Tuesday 16 December 2014
SSD/HDD hybrid business-use notebooks expected to increase in 2015
In view of continual drops in SSD prices, notebook vendors are more willing to adopt SSD/HDD hybrid storage devices for business-use models in 2015, with the proportion of hybrid...