Sony to give Quanta over 90% of its notebook orders for 2014
Aaron Lee, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Monday 8 July 2013]
Sony has reportedly given over 90% of its 2014 notebook orders to Quanta Computer, leaving only a small portion to the vendor's other ODM partners Wistron and Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
However, the makers have all declined to comment about the order shift.
Currently, Foxconn only keeps a small portion of notebook ODMs orders from clients including Apple and Sony and already quit taking orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell in 2013, the sources noted.
Wistron is currently in a rather dangerous status in terms of 2014 notebook orders and is expected to become more aggressive striving for orders from other brand vendors.
In addition to Sony, Lenovo and Dell will both finish their request for quotation (RFQ) processes in the near future. Since Lenovo is expected to shift a majority of ThinkPad orders for 2014 to its joint venture with Compal Electronics, Wistron, the major ThinkPad manufacturer in 2013, is expected to see a sharp drop in its 2014 ThinkPad orders.
However, Wistron pointed out that the dropping notebook contribution is part of the company's business diversification plan and the company is set to reduce the notebook business' revenue contribution to below 50% by the end of 2013.
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