Monday, July 23, 2007
Despite being the slow season, strong sales of notebook PCs worldwide helped drive up global PC shipments in the second quarter of this year, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
The top-five Taiwan OEM notebook makers - Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron, Inventec and Asustek Computer - saw their shipments increase 7.3% from the first quarter, with the makers combining to ship 17.57 million notebooks in the second quarter, up from 16.38 million units in the first quarter, the paper quoted sources at Taiwan-based securities houses as saying.
According to figures from Gartner and International Data Corporation (IDC) overall global PC shipments were up 12.5% on year in the second quarter, at around 61 million units.
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Top-five Taiwan notebook makers: 2Q07 notebook shipments (in million units) |
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Company |
1Q07 shipments |
2Q07 shipments |
Q/Q |
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Quanta |
6.20 |
7.40 |
19.4% |
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Compal |
4.90 |
5.12 |
4.5% |
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Wistron |
2.13 |
2.32 |
8.9% |
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Inventec |
1.80 |
1.55 |
(13.9%) |
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Asustek |
1.35 |
1.18 |
(13%) |
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Total |
16.38 |
17.57 |
7.3% |
Source: Estimates of securities houses as quoted by the Commercial Times, compiled by Digitimes, July 2007
By: DocMemory
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