The nation’s top three laptop contract manufacturers all reported rises in their cumulative sales for the first five months on the back of rising demand for laptop computers.
Compal Electronics Inc (仁寶電腦), the world’s biggest laptop contract manufacturer by shipments, yesterday reported cumulative sales from January to May at NT$364.9 billion (US$11 billion), a jump of 89 percent from that period last year. Revenues for last month expanded 93 percent to NT$73.4 billion from a year earlier, according to a company statement issued yesterday.
The No. 2 manufacturer, Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦), saw revenue growth of 66.8 percent to NT$435.9 billion for the first five months, it said in a statement. Quanta’s sales last month expanded 84.4 percent to NT$92.5 billion, it said.
Their smaller rival Wistron Corp (緯創資通) posted NT$236 billion in sales for the first five months, a 23 percent rise from a year ago. Its revenues for last month rose 25.5 percent to NT$48.6 billion.
Concord Securities (康和證券) said in a report late last month that Wistron has been exploring clients other than Acer Inc (宏碁), as the company is facing challenges such as pricing pressure and a looming threat from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), which became a notebook contract manufacturer last year.
The report said Wistron, a manufacturing arm spun off from Acer in 2001, also makes laptops for Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd (聯想), and has been aggressively diversifying into non-notebook PC areas such as LCD TV production to seek new revenue drivers.
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