Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched several new Intel Sandy Bridge-based notebooks in Taiwan, and as the company is starting to ramp-up the notebook models in March.

HP Taiwan pointed out that WebOS will be the core of the company's strategy in 2011 and the market will see HP design WebOS-based applications for the company's three major product lines - tablet PCs, desktop PCs and notebooks in 2011.

Due to issues with Intel's 6 series chipsets, HP reduced its original orders for February by about 5-10%, causing a reduction in Quanta's overall notebooks shipments to only 3.2 million units and Inventec's to only one million units in the month. But as Intel has fixed the chipset problem and has started shipping them again, HP's orders should boost its partners' shipments in March.

However, starting in April, Quanta's orders from HP are expected to drop to only about 800,000-1.2 million units each month for the rest of the second quarter and the volume drop is expected to bring a significant pressure on the company, the sources noted.

HP's newly launched notebooks are mostly from its Pavillion dv4, dv6 and g series. In addition to the upgraded processor, HP has adopted several new technologies and hardware such as USB 3.0, DLNA certification, CoolSense for temperature monitoring, wireless display and Best Audio sound system, into these models to allow better multimedia experience and faster transmission speed, according to HP Taiwan.

By: DocMemory
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