Gross margins for PC ODMs expected to turn healthy in 2012

Sep 1, 01:10

Gross margins of PC ODM players are expected to return healthy in 2012 as the notebook supply chain has already reached a mutual consensus to refuse low-margin orders in the future,...

Compal expects 3Q11 revenues to grow up to 5%

Aug 26, 14:06

Compal Electronics' revenues for the third quarter of 2011 are expected to increase by up to 5% sequentially, according to company chairman Rock Hsu. Orders for the China market remain...

Samsung reportedly contacted Taiwan OEMs for evaluating notebook outsourcing

Aug 23, 01:10

Korea-based notebook brand vendor Samsung Electronics has reportedly contacted Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Pegatron Technology in August to...

Compal sees drop in July revenues and notebook shipments

Aug 11, 01:00

Compal Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$55.95 billion (US$1.93 billion) for July, down 6% on month, with combined consolidated revenues from January to July also...

Low demand in TV market might cause Taiwan-based OEM firms to miss shipment targets

Aug 8, 15:41

Low demand in the TV industry has been causing many branded TV firms to lower shipment targets for 2011. Industry sources pointed out global shipments might decrease to 201-210 million...

Asustek reducing Eee PC orders

Aug 4, 01:15

Asustek Computer, seeing better-than-expected Eee Pad Transformer tablet PC sales and dropping Eee PC demand, is gradually reducing its Eee PC orders, according to sources from the...

Compal reportedly lands new notebook orders from Asustek for 2012

Jul 28, 01:30

Compal Electronics has reportedly landed new notebook orders from Asustek Computer for 2012, doubling its Asustek orders from two million units in 2011 to four million units in 2012,...

Acer to ship 300,000-400,000 tablet PCs in 3Q11, say sources

Jul 25, 11:10

Acer is expected to take up delivery of 30,000 units of its 7-inch Iconia A100 tablet PCs from ODM Compal Electronics in July and increase the volume to 100,000 units in the August-September...

Foxconn notebook team reportedly shift to Compal

Jul 20, 15:45

Foxconn's R&D team of 100-200 staff responsible for developing Dell notebooks have reportedly left and joined Compal Electronics due to Foxconn making adjustments in its notebook...

Lenovo pushes oversea acquisition to expand PC market share

Jul 19, 01:20

With China-based PC vendor Lenovo successfully surpassed Acer and became the third largest PC vendor worldwide in the second quarter, Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming pointed out that the...

Compal acquires Toshiba TV plant in Mexico

Jul 14, 12:28

Compal Electronics has announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed an agreement to acquire Toshiba's TV assembly subsidiary Toshiba Electromex in Mexico with the transaction...

Acer weak performance in June affecting Compal shipments

Jul 13, 15:13

Acer announced non-consolidated revenues of NT$31.94 billion (US$1.11 billion) for June, down 10.63% on month and 28.09% on year, and the company's weak performance also affected...

Laser Tek June sales up 60%

Jul 8, 01:30

Laser Tek, a supplier of surface-mount-device (SMD) packaging materials and semiconductor equipment, has reported NT$325 million (US$11.3 million) in consolidated revenues for June...

Taiwan notebook ODMs see slight sequential shipment growth in 2Q11

Jul 5, 01:30

Taiwan-based notebook makers, facing an impact from Japan's earthquake, competition from tablet vendors and the fact brand vendor significantly cleared inventory, saw their notebook...

HP, Acer, Asustek to raise supply proportion from Chongqing in 2H11

Jun 30, 01:30

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...

Acer reportedly planning to launch slide tablet PC in 4Q11

Jun 30, 01:00

Acer reportedly plans to launch a slide tablet PC in the fourth quarter of 2011, targeting the year-end holiday season, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Chicony starts development of production base in western China

Jun 29, 01:10

Taiwan-based EMS provider Chicony Electronics on June 28 held a groundbreaking ceremony for its production base in Chongqing City, western China, with production in the first phase...

Compal Communications smartphone shipments to be boosted by Nokia orders

Jun 28, 10:25

Taiwan-based ODM maker Compal Communications shipped only 3.91 million smartphones in 2010 and has downward adjusted 2011 target shipment volume from 6.0 million smartphones to 4.5...

Flextronics R&D team recruited by Compal, Wistron

Jun 28, 01:25

With Electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Flextronics recently exiting the notebook manufacturing industry, the company's notebook R&D team was soon being recruited...

Compal lands Dell orders for 10 million business-use notebooks for 2012

Jun 27, 10:22

Taiwan-based ODM Compal Electronics has obtained orders for 10 million business-use notebooks to be delivered in 2012 from Dell, according to industry sources. Compal declined to...

Compal adds investment in joint venture case maker in China

Jun 27, 10:12

Taiwan-based notebook PC ODM maker Compal Electronics on June 24 announced the additional investment of US$26.731 million in Compal Precision Module (Jiang Su), a joint venture making...

Compal Communications lowers 2011 handset shipments target; signs WP7 licensing agreement with Microsoft

Jun 24, 15:51

Compal Communications has lowered its handset shipments target for 2011 to 4.5 million units from six million projected earlier due to adjustments in product strategies by its clients,...

Compal is optimistic about its 2H11 shipment performance, says chairman

Jun 24, 15:48

Chairman of Kinpo-Compal Group Rock Hsu, at Compal Electronics' investors meeting on June 24, pointed out that Compal is optimistic about its shipment performance in the second half...

Notebook industry may not see peak season effects in 2H11

Jun 23, 01:10

The notebook industry is unlikely to return to its usual seasonal pattern of having shipment proportions of 4:6 for the first and the second halves in 2011 as the US and Europe are...

Compal signs contract with Chongqing government for investment, says paper

Jun 21, 14:23

Taiwan-based Compal Electronics, on June 20, signed a contract with the government of Chongqing, China and is set to establish new production plants in the city, according to a Chinese-language...

Acer picks up pace moving to inland China

Jun 20, 16:22

Acer has recently started picking up its pace for moving to inland China with its upstream partners such as Compal Electronics and Wistron both reportedly already shifting forward...

Notebook ODMs becoming conservative over 2H11 outlook

Jun 17, 01:20

Notebook ODMs including Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron have become more conservative about the business outlook for the second half of 2011 due to drastically changing...

Compal expected to ship 400,000-500,000 tablet PCs a month in 3Q11

Jun 15, 16:47

Taiwan-based notebook maker Compal Electronics is shipping 200,000 tablet PCs a month in the second quarter of 2011, and is expected to hike monthly shipments to 400,000-500,000 units...

Acer notebook shipments in retail channel expected to surpass 3 million in June

Jun 14, 01:25

Acer's notebook shipments in the retail channel are expected to surpass three million units in June and if the company's upstream partners such as Compal Electronics, Wistron and...

Compal sees decreased May revenues

Jun 13, 10:03

Compal Electronics had non-consolidated revenues of NT$55.179 billion (US$1.91 billion) for May decreasing 2.17% on month and 24.15% on year, while January-May revenues of NT$274.44...

Second EMS firm may withdraw from ODM production of notebooks, says Compal president

Jun 3, 11:19

While Singapore-based electronic manufacturing service (EMS) provider Flextronics International has decided to quit ODM/OEM production of notebooks, a second EMS provider may also...

Global notebook demand to regain significant growth in 2013, says Compal president

Jun 1, 15:02

Global notebook sales are likely to witness historically low sequential growth of 5-10% in 2011 and 2012 due to competition from tablet PCs, but are expected to return to significant...

Compal to start in-house production of touch sensors mainly for own use

Jun 1, 13:50

Taiwan-based notebook ODM Compal Electronics will begin production of touch sensors, a key component of touch panels, at a 4.5G color filter plant in September 2011, with a monthly...