Notebook sales down
It is hardly a surprise given that one in two UK households now have a swipy style tablet, but independent research shows top X86 models aren’t exactly the flavour of the month. According to Digitimes...
View ArticleODMs see notebook sales slump
It continues to be bleak news on the X86 notebook front, with several original design manufacturers (ODMs) showing sales decreases last January. According to Digitimes, Compal shipped 2.8 million units...
View ArticleQuanta pins hopes on servers
Taiwanese ODM firm Quanta is hoping that demand for servers will help boost its profits. That’s according to Digitimes, which claimed that Quanta’s direct customers include Google, Facebook, Amazon,...
View ArticleNotebook players change their focus
A few weeks back we reported that the lucrative datacentre market could well be the target for new vendors to enter the fray. Now there’s some hard evidence for that. Taiwanese firm Quanta Computer,...
View ArticleGoogle cuts out the server middlemen
A report said that Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM) Quanta will supply search engine giant Google with its servers in 2015. Google has long abandoned the habit of using “brand name” servers...
View ArticleNotebook sales flat
Sales of notebooks during the fourth quarter of 2014 amounted to 46 million units. That’s according to Digitimes Research, which said in a report that shipments were flat compared to the same quarter...
View ArticleDell, HP fight back on server prices
A price war has developed on the server front after multinationals faced competition from original design manufacturers (ODMs) that make the machines. Over the last year or so, companies such as Quanta...
View ArticleApple buys into white box servers
Cupertino based Apple Inc has decided to ditch HP and Dell to supply its servers and instead is looking to Taiwanese firms to supply its data centre needs. That’s according to Taiwan wire Digitimes...
View ArticleNotebook makers get into servers
Fed up with losing money in a shrinking PC market, notebook OEMs are getting into servers and datacentre hardware. According to Digitimes, Quanta and Compal have been hiring staff specifically to...
View ArticleNotebook ODMs fleeing to the cloud
There could be a drastic cut back in the number of notebooks on the market. Word in from the Far East is that notebook ODMs, such as Quanta and Compal, have been expanding staff specifically for...
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