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• Chips 05 Jan 09:48

  Quanta sues AMD

  AMD has been sued by its partner Quanta for supplying the manufacturer with a batch of dodgy chips.
• Hardware 02 Dec 09:49

  Amazon leans on Fire supply chain

  Taiwanese OEM Quanta Computer is really ramping production for Amazon's first full-on tablet, the Kindle Fire.
• Business 01 Nov 09:53

  Taiwanese firms see dismal results as Thai floods take effect

  Contract notebook manufacturers Quanta and Compal also announced that component shortages in Thailand would hurt shipments of devices in the fourth quarter.
• Hardware 14 Oct 12:59

  Vendors slash ODM orders 10 percent

  A decent third quarter - where ODMs gained generally 20 percent growth over Q2 - is set for slowing in the fourth. Compal and Quanta have both reportedly lost momentum for orders in the channel.
• Hardware 05 Oct 10:14

  HP Ultrabook rumoured in the works

  RumourDigitimes' friends in the Taiwanese supply chain have spilled the beans on HP's plans. According to Digitimes' sources, HP contracted the huge Quanta to work on ODM production for its very own Ultrabooks at the end of this year.
• Mobile 30 Sep 09:02

  RIM says it still loves the Playbook

  But while RIM is denying everything, Vihn points out that contract manufacturer Quanta Computer had laid off a significant number of workers at a factory focused on producing the PlayBook.
• Business 21 Sep 09:36

  Quanta cuts staff by a third

  Quanta, which is the world's largest PC contract maker, has cut its staff on its Taiwan production line by a third this year.
• Hardware 24 Aug 08:56

  Samsung tipped to buy HP PC arm

  Digitimes has heard that Samsung executives have been wining and dining HP notebook contractors Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Pegatron Technology.
• Chips 27 Jul 11:07

  Facebook says Tilera chips better than Intel and AMD

  In a white paper, released to Eweek, the boffins said that a Quanta Computer system running on Tilera's low-power 64-core TilePro64 processors gave three times the performance-per-watt of Intel's quad-core Xeon chips and more than four times AMD's eight-core Opteron chips.
• Hardware 24 May 08:48

  Amazon tablet will be ready by Christmas

  Bajarin's rumour gathering comes hard on the heels of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos telling punters to "stay tuned" on the topic of an Amazon tablet. We named Quanta as the supplier of tablets to Amazon.
• Business 12 May 10:18

  Component shortage leads to secret stockpiling

  While both component suppliers and device manufacturers are apparently claiming that they have not seen any shortages and won’t do so until the end of the month, a Digitimes source has said that Asustek, Acer, Motorola, Apple, HTC, Quanta and Compal have all started to make aggressive moves - to ens
• Hardware 03 May 10:13

  Amazon places tablet orders with Quanta

  Apparently, the online book seller has placed orders with the notebook maker Quanta.
• Chips 16 Mar 12:04

  Intel takes aim at sub 10W Atom

  These are multiple single-socket CPU boards that share a chassis. Dell, Tyan, Supermicro and Quanta have signed up for them and the segment will make up less than 10 percent of the overall server market for the next 4-5 years.
• Chips 15 Mar 18:55

  Intel spins shrinking the die in data centre tale

  It says it has a number of big players on its side for the micro server concept including Quanta – a huge Taiwanese ODM, Tyan – owned by Mitac now, Dell,  Seamicro and a company called Supermicro which we've barely heard of.
• Business 14 Mar 12:21

  Acer outsources desktops to Foxconn

  Foxconn has done a lot of outsourcing work with Acer but the outfit also used Wistron and ECS. It used to buy its all-in-one PCs from Quanta Computer and Wistron.
• Business 28 Jan 12:15

  Tablet goldrush will not lead to panel shortage

  CommentRIM is putting its foot firmly in the industry, announcing that production of its PlayBook tablet PCs at Quanta's plant in Taiwan have reached an economic scale of 150,000-200,000 a month with shipments to be ready as early as February.
• Hardware 08 Dec 10:40

  Google goes nuts about Chrome OS laptops

  Acer, which is tipped along with Samsung to be the first to manufacturer the laptops,  has cooperated with Quanta Computer to develop a 10.1-inch Atom N550-based Chrome OS netbook, featuring both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules.
• Business 04 Nov 09:59

  Quanta to lose 3-5 million notebook orders as HP squeezes harder

  Quanta looks set to lose sales of between three to five million units as Hewlett Packard continues to squeeze the notebook manufacturers.

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