Major PC contract manufacturers and brand producers in Taiwan yesterday released sales data for last month, with all reporting an upward trend in their respective figures.
Quanta Computer Inc (廣達), the world’s largest notebook contract maker by revenue, saw last month’s sales reach NT$96.7 million (US$3 million) — a rise of 11.9 percent from August and 32.8 percent from a year earlier.
Cumulative sales from January to last month expanded 54.5 percent from last year to NT$805.5 million, Quanta said in a statement.
The Linkou (林口), Taipei County-based company shipped a record 5 million portable computers last month to clients, including Hewlett-Packard Co and Apple Inc. In the third quarter, it shipped 13 million laptops, down 5.1 percent from 13.7 million units in the second quarter, the statement said.
The drop in shipments is in line with the company’s earlier forecast of a miniscule to minus 5 percent change in third-quarter shipments.
Quanta has said it expected fourth-quarter shipments to remain on par with the third, while whole-year shipments would hit 50 million units.
Meanwhile, smaller rival Compal Electronics Inc (仁寶) posted record revenue for last month at NT$80.2 billion, marking a month-on-month jump of 22 percent and year-on-year rise of 19 percent.
Its January to last month revenue expanded 56 percent to NT$644.2 billion from the same period of last year.
Compal also shipped a record 4.6 million notebooks last month, to help clients, including Acer Inc (宏碁) and Lenovo Group (聯想), prepare for the year-end peak season.
Total Compal laptop shipments for the third quarter were 11.7 million units, a decrease of 4.9 percent from the second quarter’s 12.3 million units.
The Neihu (內湖), Taipei City-based company has forecast fourth-quarter shipments would rise 10 percent.
Pegatron Corp (和碩), a manufacturing spinoff from Asustek Computer Inc (華碩), saw sales rise 4.6 percent to NT$39.9 million last month.
Total sales for the first nine months were NT$318.5 million, said Pegatron, whose clients include Asustek, Hanvon Technology Co (漢王科技) and Apple.
Pegatron shipped 1.4 million to 1.5 million laptops last month, a month-on-month rise of 14.4 percent. The combined shipments of motherboards and desktops rose 9.5 percent to as many as 1.7 million units, according to a company statement.
Acer Inc, the world’s second-largest PC brand, reported that sales rose 11 percent last month from a month earlier, to NT$58.4 billion and reiterated its third-quarter revenue guidance, according to a separate press release.
Sales for the third quarter may grow about 10 percent to 15 percent from the second quarter, the company said in the release.
Sales of Asustek, the world’s No. 5 PC brand, were NT$27.7 million last month, a rise of 6 percent from August and 18 percent from a year ago.
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