Following significant drops both on month and on year in January, worldwide notebook shipments remained weak in February, growing only 2% sequentially for the top-five brand vendors together and 1% sequentially for the top-three notebook ...
With assistance from Microsoft and Intel, China-based brand vendors and white-box players have been aggressively pushing new 2-in-1 devices recently. In addition to Huawei's MateBook and Haier's 2-in-1 devices, white-box players are ...
Tags: white-box players, Huawei, Acer, notebooks
The global notebook market will face more uncertainty in 2016 as Xiaomi Technology and Huawei will debut in the mature market, and Samsung Electronics has also renewed its interest in it, according to industry sources. As the global ...
Tags: notebook market, Xiaomi, smartphones
While notebook and tablet shipments have seen slow growth or decreases, 2-in-1 notebook/tablet shipments have significantly increased and therefore global 2-in-1 shipments in 2016 are expected to grow on year by a double-digit rate, ...
Acer, in line with promoting its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) business, has established joint-venture venture capital of CNY100 million (US$15.75 million) in Chongqing City, western China, with Acer holding a 30% stake and Taiwan-based ODM ...
Tags: Acer, BYOC, venture capital
In response to China-based Tsinghua Unigroup's interest in combining its two subsidiary IC designers with Taiwan-based MediaTek, Acer founder Stan Shih said that China-based investment in Taiwan-based IC design houses is feasible as long as ...
Notebook brand vendors including Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell are preparing to launch their new Skylake-based 2-in-1 devices starting October and expect these devices to attract consumer demand to help boost ...
Tags: Notebook, Computer, 2-in-1 devices
Two of the best known Taiwanese personal computer (PC) vendors, Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus), are aggressively targeting the mobile-device market, especially the smartphone segment, by launching several new cellphone models in ...
Tags: PC Vendors, Smartphone
The global top-5 Wintel notebook brand vendors' combined shipments grew 17% on month in August, but compared to the same month a year ago, the volume was down 14%. Meanwhile the top-3 ODMs' combined volume was up 13% on month, but down 17% ...
Combined handset shipments by Taiwan-based handset vendors and ODMs in the third and fourth quarters are likely to be lower than the amount they shipped in the second quarter, reflecting slackening demand, according to Digitimes Research. ...
Tags: handset shipments, TCL, LG Electronics
Although the production capability of China-based notebook ODMs is still too small to make a significant impact on their Taiwan-based counterparts, the notebook supply chain in China stands a chance of expanding their presence in the global ...
For branded media tablets, or tablet PCs, the year 2015 is off to a rocky start. For the first time since inception, the popular consumer item experienced its largest quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline to date of 35 percent, in the first ...
Tags: Tablet Shipments Acer
Competition in the gaming notebook segment is surely to become keener in the second half of 2015 as notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) together are expected to ...
Tags: Gaming Notebook, Tablet Notebook
Notebook shipments (excluding detachable models) by the top-five vendors as well as top-three ODMs suffered a sequential decline of 25% and 19%, respectively, in January due to a high level of inventory at channels which resulted mainly ...
Tags: Notebook, top-three ODMs
After a troubled year in 2014, the global tablet market is not returning to the levels of growth seen in the last four years as demand for tablets will continue to be slow in 2015. Gartner estimates that worldwide tablet sales will reach ...
Tags: tablet market, Tablet