Compal Electronics on August 31 announced an indirect additional investment of NT$498.6 million (US$15.1 million) in Compal Precision Module, a notebook chassis production joint venture...
Notebook PCB makers HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) both expect to see their utilization rates stand high in the second half due to shipment outlooks released by...
Samsung Electronics has set an internal goal of attaining a 20% share in the global notebook CMOS image sensor (CIS) market in 2009 and an over 30% share in 2010, according to Taiwan-based...
Taiwan niche inductor makers Cyntec and Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics are likely to enjoy strong sales through December driven by increasing demand for new notebook and smartphone...
Taiwan passive component maker Cyntec will invest NT$400 million (US$12.2 million) to expand its monthly capacity of power chokes from 70 million units in the first quarter to 100...
Taiwan notebook PCB makers HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) have lifted their third-quarter notebook PCB shipment goals to 15% growth due to the launch of ultra-thin...
Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron, Inventec and Pegatron Computer are expected to ship around 13-14 million notebooks in September 2009, according to industry sources.
Notebook outsourcing from Hewlett-Packard (HP) to Taiwan makers dropped from above three million units in June 2009 to around 2.7-2.9 million units in July despite that the third...
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reportedly offering price cuts on its connectors to gain back orders that were lost from first-tier notebook makers due to the...
Dell will procure IT components produced by Taiwan-based makers with a projected total value of US$18-20 billion in 2009, growing from US$13 billion in 2006, US$15 billion in 2007...
The tight supply of notebook hard drives is expected to continue throughout the third quarter, according to IC distributor GMI Technology and Weikeng Industrial, sales agents for...
Taiwan-based notebook vendors, despite a better-than-expected business outlook for the latter half of 2009, are still suffering drops in product pricing and increased costs for some...
Notebook component makers are optimistic about the business potential of ultra-thin notebooks and expect the products to increase their revenues in the third quarter, according to...
First-tier notebook makers are starting to transfer their connector orders from Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to other Taiwan-based connector makers to counter...
