Quanta Computer Inc (廣達), the world’s largest contract maker of notebook computers, posted second-quarter sales of NT$266 billion (US$9.2 billion), up 6.2 percent from the first quarter.
Sales for the first six months dropped 3.3 percent compared with the same period last year to NT$518.2 billion, according to a company statement.
Quanta — which makes notebooks for Hewlett-Packard Co and Apple Inc, as well as servers for Google Inc — said it shipped 27.4 million laptops during the first half.
Vice chairman C.C. Leung (梁次震) said last month that shipments in the third and fourth quarters would each rise 5 percent to 10 percent as the company is targeting shipping more than 57 million laptops this year, up from 52.1 million units last year.
WINSTRON
In related news, the world’s third-largest laptop maker, Wistron Corp (緯創), saw revenue in the first half inch up 1.5 percent to NT$296.5 billion.
Wistron chairman Simon Lin (林憲民) said last month that the uncertain global economic recovery and Apple’s iPad would cut notebook demand in the second half of the year.
PEGATRON
Smaller notebook maker Pegatron Corp (和碩) saw first-half sales fall 11 percent to NT$185.8 billion, while Asustek Computer Inc (華碩), the world’s sixth-largest PC brand, yesterday posted standalone sales of NT$28.3 billion for last month, which represented a rise of 17 percent from May and an increase of 37 percent over same month last year.
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