400 news items tagged ODM
Lenovo to produce 60% of its notebooks in-house in 2014
Monday 19 August 2013Lenovo reportedly will produce 60% of its notebooks in-house in 2014, while outsourcing to Compal Electronics will drop to only 30% of total shipments from the previous 50%, and Wistron's...
Digitimes Research: Notebook vendors suffer over 20% on-month shipment drops in July
Wednesday 14 August 2013The disappearance of the back-to-school demand in 2012 has extended into 2013 as first-tier notebook brand vendors and ODMs suffered on-month drops of 23% and 17%, respectively, in...
Notebook ODMs see rising shipments in August
Tuesday 13 August 2013Notebook ODMs' shipments have been rising in August and shipments are expected to peak in September. Demand may remain significant in October, but overall growth in the second half...
LG not ready to outsource smartphone production despite growing shipments, say sources
Thursday 25 July 2013LG Electronics appears to be unlikely to release its smartphone orders to Taiwan-based ODMs in the short term despite its growing smartphone shipments, according to sources at Taiwan's...
Nokia expected to release more ODM orders, say Taiwan makers
Friday 19 July 2013Nokia is expected to release more handset orders, including smartphones and feature phones, to Taiwan-based ODMs to reduce its R&D expenses as the vendor is now focusing on Lumia...
Notebook ODMs and suppliers seeing tense relationships
Wednesday 17 July 2013Relationships between notebook ODMs and component suppliers have turned tense recently because ODMs have started demanding their suppliers cut quotes directly to the levels asked...
ODM orders from notebook vendors likely to fluctuate in 2H13, say Taiwan makers
Friday 12 July 2013The number of molds ordered by notebook vendors has increased since June but most are for use by a single machine, implying that vendors' order volumes may fluctuate widely in the...
Pegatron sees on-year growth in June revenues
Wednesday 10 July 2013Pegatron Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$66.54 billion (US$2.21 billion) for June, down 7.65% on month and 12.44% on year, NT$203.99 billion for the second quarter,...
Sony to give Quanta over 90% of its notebook orders for 2014
Monday 8 July 2013Sony has reportedly given over 90% of its 2014 notebook orders to Quanta Computer, leaving only a small portion to the vendor's other ODM partners Wistron and Foxconn Electronics...
Notebook ODMs expect mixed monthly performance in 3Q13
Wednesday 3 July 2013Notebook ODMs saw their shipments enjoy an on-month growth in June, but expect an on-month drop in July, growth in August and then to reach their annual peaks in September, according...
Notebook brand vendors conducting product R&D directly with component makers
Monday 1 July 2013Notebook brand vendors have started conducting product R&D themselves and are directly discussing with hinge makers about development ideas, skipping ODMs, which used to do R&D...
Quanta targets 3S as the new business directions
Monday 24 June 2013Quanta Computer is targeting the 3S - software, system and solution - as the company's new business directions for the future and is set to bring the revenue contribution of its notebook...
Commentary: Foxconn faces more labor problems
Friday 21 June 2013To show the importance of labor rights, Apple became the first IT company to join the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in 2012 and through the association, Apple began inspections of...
Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
Wednesday 19 June 2013Taiwan-based networking/communication device maker Accton Technology has received ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October 2013, according to the company.
Netronix aims to become largest e-book reader ODM in 3 years, says paper
Tuesday 18 June 2013Taiwan-based Netronix shipped about two million e-book readers for a global market share of 10% in 2012 and aims to hike its share to 15-20% in 2013, 25-30% in 2014, and 35-40% in...
Notebook ODMs bracing for price war
Thursday 13 June 2013Notebook brand vendors have recently started the request-for-quotation (RFQ) process for 2014 orders. But because of the notebook industry's weak shipments and Lenovo increasing in-house...
Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
Thursday 23 May 2013Dennis van Schie, global head of marketing for Sony Mobile, has commented that the firm will extend cooperation and view ODM firms as strategic partners in product development to...
Wistron expected to become largest ODM for BlackBerry in 2013
Tuesday 14 May 2013Wistron has taken over BlackBerry's R&D staff of about 100 members based in Chicago and is expected to undertake production of 50-60% of the vendor's smartphones launched in 2013,...
Taiwan makers struggle to benefit from fast growing cloud computing storage market
Friday 3 May 2013While global demand for cloud computing-based storage has been growing fast, it is difficult for Taiwan-based hardware makers to enjoy such business opportunities because cloud computing-based...
Lenovo seeking help from Taiwan ODMs for the server industry
Tuesday 23 April 2013With Lenovo reportedly talking with IBM about the the acquisition of IBM's server business, sources from the upstream supply chain pointed out that the China-based vendor has already...
ODMs see weaker profits from tablet business
Tuesday 26 March 2013As Google and Amazon reportedly will release their next-generation 7-inch entry-level tablets in the near future, sources from the upstream supply chain have estimated that related...
Amazon said to be considering taking back Kindle Fire purchasing rights
Wednesday 13 March 2013Amazon reportedly plans to change its component purchasing strategy for Kindle Fire and will make all the decisions itself instead of relying on ODMs, according to sources from the...
Commentary: Entering the entry-level tablet competition a must for ODMs
Friday 1 March 2013Although some upstream supply chain players do not think notebook ODMs should join the entry-level tablet competition because of profitability concerns, it seems a neccessary step...
Competition over entry-level tablets may hurt ODMs
Tuesday 26 February 2013As Compal Electronics and Wistron are competing aggressively over orders for Acer's upcoming 8- and 10-inch entry-level tablet devices, sources from the upstream supply chain are...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 4Q12 notebook ODM shipments up on quarter, down on year
Tuesday 15 January 2013Taiwan-based ODMs shipped 43.69 million notebooks in fourth-quarter 2012, increasing 2.5% sequentially but decreasing 3.0% on year, with their global market share reaching 90.1%,...
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