By Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Tuesday 25 August 2009] Last update: Tuesday 1 September 2009

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Global notebook shipments grew 31.8% on year to 137 million units in 2008, of which, 91.4% were made by Taiwan makers, up from 89.5% in 2007. Confusion in the market as new segments arise Table 1: Intel notebook business strategy Table 2: AMD notebook business strategy Traditional notebooks Chart 1: Taiwan and worldwide traditional notebook shipments, 2007-2011 (k units) Chart 2: CPU shipment share of Taiwan notebooks, 2006-2008 Netbooks Table 3: Netbook proportion of total notebook shipments, 2007-2008 Table 4: Global netbook vendors’ netbook models Ultra-thin notebook Taiwan ODMs Chart 3: Notebook shipments by tier, 2005-2009 Quanta Computer Table 5: Quanta notebook shipments, 2008 (million units) Compal Electronics Table 6: Compal notebook shipments, 2008 (million units) Wistron Table 7: Wistron notebook shipments, 2008 (million units) Inventec Table 8: Inventec notebook shipments, 2008 (million units) Pegatron Technology Table 9: Pegatron notebook shipments, 2008 (million units) Non Top-5 makers Chart 4: Notebook makers’ shipment share, 2008 Table 10: Taiwan notebook players consolidated revenues in 2008 (NT$ billion) Taiwan brand vendors Acer Asustek Table 11: Asustek notebook shipments, 2008 (million units) MSI, Gigabyte and BenQ Table 12: Major Taiwan notebook vendor shipments, 2008 (million units) Clients Chart 5: Notebook shipment share of Top-10 customers, 2007-2008 Industry watch Vendors start pushing BD notebooks in 1Q09 Battery shortage in 1H08 Competition from EMS providers Global economic worries White-box netbook
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