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2008-04-29 |
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Quanta Computer expects to sell 40 million laptops |
The largest contract laptop PC maker Quanta Computer raised its shipment target for this year to over 40 million laptop PCs, citing a clearer view of demand.
The Taiwanese company shipped 32 million notebooks last year, and in October forecast that shipments for 2008 would rise to around 36 million. The revision is a sign of strong demand worldwide. Quanta manufactures notebook PCs on behalf of nearly all major vendors, including Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
The shipment target does not include the emerging ultra-low cost laptop PC segment of the market. Quanta manufactures laptops for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC), and could win orders from other vendors now that the market for low-cost laptops is taking off.
"We don't know what demand for low-cost laptops will be so we can't really give you a figure," said C.C. Leung, vice chairman and president of Quanta, at a news conference in Kuei Shan, Taiwan.
He expects the popularity of OLPC's XO laptop and Asustek Computer's Eee PC to spur demand for the low-cost devices, but won't forecast by how much.
The company has factored in the shaky global economy to its 2008 laptop shipment forecast, Leung said. "It looks like there will be some impact on the notebook market in the U.S., but Europe and other areas are okay," he said. |
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